The Kimball Group Reader: Relentlessly Practical Tools for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Acknowledgments

First, we want to thank the 28,000 current subscribers to the Kimball Design Tips, and the uncounted numbers of you who have visited the Kimball Group web site to peruse our magazine article archive. This book brings the design tips and articles together in what we hope is a very usable form.

The Kimball Group Reader would not exist without the assistance of our business partners. Kimball Group members Bob Becker, Joy Mundy, and Warren Thornthwaite wrote many of the valuable articles and design tips included in the book. Thanks to Julie Kimball for her insightful comments. Thanks also to former Kimball Group member Bill Schmarzo for his contributions on analytic applications.

Bob Elliott, our executive editor at Wiley Publishing, project editor Sara Shlaer, and the rest of the Wiley team have supported this project with skill, encouragement, and enthusiasm. It has been a pleasure to work with them. We also want to thank Doug Henschen, editor of Intelligent Enterprise, and Julie Langenkamp, editor of DM Review, for allowing us to publish the many articles that appeared in their magazines.

To our families, thank you for your support over the fifteen year span during which we wrote these design tips and articles. Julie Kimball and Scott Ross have been a huge positive force in our professional and personal lives. And, of course, thanks to our children, Sara Kimball Smith, Brian Kimball, and Katie Ross, who have grown into adults over the same time!