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Star Schemas are fundamental to unleashing value from data in Microsoft Fabric

Star Schemas are fundamental to unleashing value from data in Microsoft Fabric
The practice of dimensional modelling to generate Star Schemas was brought to mainstream adoption by Ralph Kimble in his seminal work The Data Warehouse Toolkit in 1996. This blog explains why his principles remain as relevant today as they were 30 years ago.

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