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Reasons to use a 3NF design over a Dimensional Model design for an EDW - Discussion

I've been dimensional modelling for well over 10 years, and strongly held the opinon that only a dimensional model would work for an EDW, however i'm now begining to think that there are certain requirements that lead to a 3NF design for an 'Enterprise

Data Vault v's Dimensional Model

Seems to be a lot of interest over at LinkedIn around the DataVault model. I wondered what the thoughts were about it. When would you use it v's a Dimensional Model or even a 3NF for a data warehouse. more info here:

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