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Dimensional Modelling by Example Page 1 04/09/2014 13:02 Dimensional Modelling by Example Barry Williams Dimensional Modelling by Example Page 2 04/09/2014 13:02 1. Management Summary ........................................ ........................................ ............................ 5 The Purpose of this Book ........................................ ........................................ ................... 5 The Contents of this Book ........................................ ........................................ ................. 5 Three Stages ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ .. 5 What are Dimensional Models ? ........................................ ........................................ ..... 5 Data Marts.

In addition to Dimension Models, we have included Entity-Relationship Diagrams, which we show simply as ‘ERD’. For each ERD we have added a brief description of the Business Rules that define the Entities or ‘Things of Interest’ and how they are related. This is very important because it helps the end-user to understand the kind of

  Entity, Relationship