Dimensional Modeling: The Kimball Approach

Description

Course Announcement

This course will be delivered in a part time approach. In conjunction with our virtual training platform, the course content is taught in 5 half-day blocks, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm CET / 7:00am to 11:00am EST. This means that the course take longer to complete, but it also means that participants have the opportunity to attend training even if their daily business does not allow them to be absent for several days at a time.

Introduction

Ralph Kimball popularized dimensional modeling, or star schemas, nearly thirty years ago. In the decades since, the five members of the Kimball Group worked to develop, explain, and teach the techniques for dimensional modeling. Today’s popular business intelligence, database, and ETL tools are all marked by the concepts published by the Kimball Group. An excellent dimensional model, or star schema, is the foundation of an excellent data warehouse.

In this practical course, you will learn techniques for developing your dimensional model, from the basics to the most advanced practices. Concepts are taught through a combination of lectures, case studies, and small group exercises. Our goal is to provide you with the skillset you need to lead a dimensional modeling effort at your organization, and the judgement needed to make the tradeoffs between competing goals.

This course gives you the opportunity to learn directly from Joy Mundy, formerly of the Kimball Group and co-author with Ralph Kimball of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit and The Kimball Group Reader.

She teaches the full course portfolio, previously taught by Kimball University for one simple reason: the methodology proves its value over and over in practice.

Who should attend

This course is designed for data warehouse architects, data modelers, database administrators, business analysts, and ETL or BI application developers and designers.

Prerequisites

You should be:

• Able to name and describe in a few words the main operational systems of his or her organization
• Able to name and describe in a few words the main business concerns of the end users in his or her organization
• Somewhat familiar with basic data modeling concepts such as referential integrity

However, the absence of these abilities and familiarity will not keep you from profiting from the course.