Re: cubes

DA Morgan wrote:
> chinmayuce02_at_gmail.com wrote:
> > i am new to the data warehouse field. i have studied sql server 2000
> > data base. i want to know the difference between reletational model and
> > multidimensional model. it is written that cubes are the unit of data
> > storage in MDD. it also written that cubes can have more than three
> > dimensions. what exactly a dimension in a cube contains?
>
> Whatever number of dimensions the develop chooses.
>
> Look into finding a good book on DW or a course at a local college or
> university.
> --
> Daniel Morgan
> University of Washington
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group

There are a fair number of threads that touch upon the subject of cubes to be found on the comp.databases.theory newsgroup that might be of interest.

Normalization by Composing, not just Decomposing http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.theory/browse_frm/thread/cf1105733536464d/7f41a2f7da1e7e91?lnk=gst&q=Cube&rnum=1#7f41a2f7da1e7e91

Possible bridges between OO programming proponents and relational model http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.theory/browse_frm/thread/54e82593b205a2a8/c284cc54aa19a2e4?lnk=gst&q=Cube&rnum=2#c284cc54aa19a2e4

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Mon Sep 25 2006 - 13:52:40 CDT