Ralph Kimball was co-inventor of the Xerox Star workstation, the first commercial product to use mice, icons, and windows. He was vice president of applications at Metaphor Computer Systems, and is the founder and former CEO of Red Brick Systems. He now works as an independent consultant designing large data warehouses. His book The Data Warehouse Toolkit: How to Design Dimensional Data Warehouses (Wiley, 1996) is now available. You can reach Ralph through his Internet Web page at http://www.rkimball.com.
Ralph writes the Data Warehouse Architect column in DBMS. The Article Index by Author lists Ralph's articles.
Read an excerpt from The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses by Ralph Kimball. Reprinted with permission from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.