Dimensional Modelling when the core concept has Many to Many relationships (or am I trying to fit a square peg into a round hole)

robdawson at 02h25
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Apr
2010
Dimensional Modelling when the core concept has Many to Many relationships (or am I trying to fit a square peg into a round hole)

I am currently building a product to help do analysis of content management systems. The product is feeling very much like a DataWarehouse/datamart system, and I'm trying to apply dimensional modelling techniques to the model. After reading the first few chapters of "The Data Warehouse Toolkit", I'm beginning to fear that I'm trying to fit a squ
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