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Lawrence Corr's 'Agile Data Warehouse' introduces an iterative and incremental approach to data warehousing, promoting collaboration between business users and IT professionals. The book presents the BEAM* methodology, which focuses on aligning data warehouse development with business priorities. By breaking down the data warehouse project into smaller, manageable iterations, teams can deliver value more quickly and adapt to changing business needs. The book emphasizes the importance of continuous feedback and iterative refinement, ensuring that the data warehouse meets the evolving requirements of the business. 'Agile Data Warehouse' provides practical guidance and best practices for building data warehouses in a dynamic and agile environment.

This book is a definitive guide to dimensional modeling, starting with fundamental design recommendations and progressing through increasingly complex real-world scenarios. It covers advanced dimensional modeling patterns, including bridge tables, multivalued attributes, and slowly changing dimensions. The book also includes case studies from various industries such as retail sales, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare. It emphasizes the use of the bus matrix for identifying relationships between dimensions and applications and provides guidance on ETL systems and the Kimball BI/DW life cycle methodology.