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The Datavist's avatar

The reasoning behind the potential pitfalls of OBT are really well thought out, and I’ll likely wheel them out at some future point when I’m inevitably caught up in some debate of Kimball v OBT.

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Martin McMillan's avatar

“Someone once described Excel as being the second best tool for any job, and that’s why it’s so well adopted. Maybe star schemas occupy a similar space.”

Love this! Will def steal.

Great read. I often have to remind myself why we do it this way. I had to have that chat with someone about the Big Fat Table approach and felt slightly ill-equipped to answer with great convince until now.

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