[BOOK REVIEW] The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball/Dimensional Modeling

Hang Nguyen
3 min readMar 21, 2022

#3 Book: The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 3rd edition from class Data Engineer by Tuan Anh Pham

Brief introduction

Dimensional modeling is a longstanding technique for making databases simple.

Simplicity is the key element for database design, which can be achieved with dimensional modeling technique.

A data model that starts simple has a chance of remaining simple at the end of the design.

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Hang Nguyen

A Data Engineer with a passion for technology, literature, and philosophy.