Summary

We have now gone through the process of designing the target structure for our data warehouse. We began with a very high-level overview of data warehouse design topics, then talked about dimensional design and the relational versus multidimensional implementation, and then we discussed the differences between them. As was mentioned earlier, there are other books that are devoted solely to this topic and it would be good to read one or more of them to learn more about design than we've been able to cover here. Our design for ACME Toys and Gizmos is very rudimentary, just to give us an introduction to designing in OWB. You'll want to read in more detail about design when you tackle a real-world design because you may run into other issues we didn't have time or space to cover here.

We're going to take this up now and actually implement the design in OWB in the next chapter.