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So just a little background; I started working for my current employer back in December 2007.  Their reporting was a mess, as were some other things, but now we’ve got a brand-new, from scratch data warehouse.  Our internal team worked with an external team to build it out and it transitioned over to us  officially maybe a month or so ago.  Now that we’ve got it, we’re uncovering a few things that need to be fixed or re-engineered.  We expected that; it was a tight deadline and we were already aware of certain areas that would required our attention once the transition occurred. Read more…

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The Kimball Group recently went live with their new discussion forum.  For those of you who don’t know, the Kimball Group are the authorities on data warehousing.  I actually attended a Kimball training class in Chicago back in October of 2007; it was very good.

After that class I threw together a data warehousing forum  since the Kimball group didn’t have one yet.  Warren Thornthwaite joined up and we had a few discussions on forums in general.  Looks like Warren has successfully spearheaded the effort to get the Kimball forum online.  Now that the Kimball forum has launched I’ve completely discontinued my old DSSForum.  Thanks to all those who posted there; now it’s time to move to the big leagues.  Read more…

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