Not Your Kimball’s DW
BI practitioners, myself included, have been following the Kimbal tenets for dimensional schema design for years. In fact, it's a second nature to dimensionalize every BI project the "proper" way. You identify fact tables, grain, dimensions, etc. Dimensions of course would have surrogate keys – your insurance against weird things happening down the road, such as tracking Type 2 changes, unreliable business keys, acquisitions, and…
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