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by baakss 3604 days ago
The link I posted above is a common SQL land usage. Dimensional modeling in a star schema is very widely used in BI projects.

There's actually two competing philosophies on data warehousing (Inmon and Kimball), but I've only ever used Kimball's method, which favors denormalization.

http://www.computerweekly.com/tip/Inmon-vs-Kimball-Which-app...