Design Introduction
Design Introduction
QAD Data Warehouse Designer can be used to build data warehouses based on any number of design philosophies from normalized enterprise data warehouses with consumer data marts through to federated or conformed star schema based warehouses. In the absence of another approach, the following methodology can be used for the design of data warehouses.
Note: This section can be skipped if you already have data warehouse design experience or a methodology you wish to utilize. It is meant to provide the novice designer with some tips for designing a data warehouse.