Back to basics - A Data Warehouse Dictionary

 One of the things that i've learned so far is that we all talk different dialects, even when we are sharing the same language. One of the strongest challanges that i've meet so far was to make sure that, when we are talking about one concept, we are all talking about the same thing. And this happends beacuse we are different people, we have different ways to learn things, and we have different experiences.

Try to launch a discussion a Data Warehouse developer, a BI Business Analyst, a Project Manager and a BI Director and you will quickly see that, while talking about the same thing, as the Data Warehouse architecture, each of the one's about will understand something different. Therefore, in order to have any kind of progress, you'll have to define a kind of dictionary,  that (very unlikely) every one will agree on.

I have no intention to give by the book definitions as accurate as Kimball or Inmon, which are the parents of the Data Warehouse revolution. Their work should be read and appreciated, since without it, we would have nothing now to discuss about. They had a vision and they've fight about it, when everyone else was in the dark.

What i intend to do is to give definitions more related to the business processes that are generating them, more centered to the real life implementation of these concepts, that we see all around us.

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