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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

erwin

I published my first book in 2003 showcasing how I used Ralph’s technique to create a large data warehouse in the Oracle database. Figure 3: A data model of an OLTP point-of-sale system. This is a data model of an OLTP convenient store point-of-sale and ordering system. Star schema design is actually quite simple.

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Predictions 08: How Did I Do?

John Battelle's Searchblog

For more on that, see the FM Blog , Chas's site (FM's Publisher), and the case studies and writings of scores of folks, including David Armano , David Churbuck , Deb Schultz , Shel Israel , Seth Godin , and of course, all the brands on Twitter. I think this was absolutely accurate. point to this conclusion.