Mining your corporate data for valuable customer information can improve your business performance. But it's not as simple as it sounds. Database Advisor article by Phillip Blackwood.

Michael Reed of TechnologyEvaluation.Com gives a brief overview of the definition of a data warehouse.

Ralph Kimball's Intelligent Enterprise article that offers tips for stitching late-arriving records into an existing data warehouse.

The articles are selected by DM Review editors as the most informative articles that have run in DM Review regarding business intelligence and data warehousing.

Bill Inmon article originally published in DM Review about the differences between a data mart and a data warehouse.

DM Direct article by Chris Silbernagel that outlines some of the primary issues and decision points of implementing a relational on-line analytical processing data warehouse with data security.

DM Review article by Douglas Hackney with some frequently asked questions about federated data warehouses.

DM Review article by Douglas Hackney that looks in more detail at how you build a federated BI architecture.

DM Review article by Douglas Hackney that addresses federated data warehouse architecture.

DM Review article by Douglas Hackney discussing conditions that can merit a federated BI architecture.

Laura Hadley examines ways in which organizations can think about quality in the data warehouse environment, as well as ideas for possible metrics to measure quality and extend warehouse value.

A data warehouse architecture is a description of the elements and services of the warehouse, with details showing how the components will fit together and how the system will grow over time.

Ralph Kimball's Intelligent Enterprise article comparing the dominant approaches to enterprise data warehousing.

DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball discussing two types of useful fact tables that contain no facts at all.

Ralph Kimball article from DBMS Online discussing how to use helper tables to handle dimensions with complex hierarchies.

Arthur Moore and David Wells. The essence of data warehousing assessment is directed at refining the warehousing process and revitalizing the warehousing initiative.

Offers both print and online-only articles, news and analysis focused on the business software strategies that enable IT and business decision-makers to plan, build, manage and purchase business critical enterprise applications.

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball completes the 20 criteria for rating your dimensional data warehouse by adding 8 expression criteria.

The site gives access to Ralph Kimball and other Kimball Group members's columns and articles on data warehouse for the period 1995-2005.

Michael Jennings' DM Review article on managing current and historical views of information.

Many organizations must manage multiple warehousing initiatives underway simultaneously and these systems will most likely be based on products from multiple data warehousing vendors, in the typical decentralized approach of most corporations.

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball on the data warehouse design challenge of describing the past accurately.

DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball discussing design solutions for handling changes in very large dimensions.

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine article by Ralph Kimball that explains the first 12 of twenty criteria for comparing data webhouses.

William Inmon. Once the data warehouse is built, attention shifts from the building of the data warehouse to the day to day operations of making the data warehouse work.

DBMS Online article by Ralph Kimball about keeping control over record identifiers by generating new keys for the data.

Technical magazine for data warehouse professionals interested in NCR's Teradata database management system.

DM Review article by Colin White about federated data warehouses.

A successful BI project team is like a four-legged table - each leg holds up its share of the weight. Remove one and the project wobbles. The four legs of a team are Project Sponsorship and Governance, Project Management, Development Team (Core Team), and Extended Project Team.

Bill Inmon's DM Review article discussing dimensional modeling.

Nick Galemmo's Intelligent Enterprise article that offers a modeling solution for when differing entities share a role.