Chuck Kelley
Chuck Kelley is an internationally known expert in database and data warehousing technology. He has 30 years of experience in designing and implementing operational/production systems and data warehouses. Kelley has worked in some facet of the design and implementation phase of more than 50 data warehouses and data marts. He also teaches seminars, co-authored four books on data warehousing and has been published in many trade magazines on database technology, data warehousing and enterprise data strategies. He can be contacted at chuckkelley@usa.net.
Recent Stories From this Author
When is it better to have normalized data to create data marts and when is it better to have dimensional data?
March 7, 2008 Hoping not be bombarded by emails, I still don’t get the difference between Kimball’s and Inmon’s approach.
Can data warehouses be designed to cover all possible queries on dimensions that we throw at it without providing a list of reports to an IT department?
March 7, 2008 First of all, some reports can be predicted. The reports users get today that will be satisfied by the data warehouse will...
Can anyone share some experience as to how to test a data warehouse?
March 7, 2008 Can anyone share some experience as to how to test a data warehouse? What kind of test cases needs to be written?
What is the difference between a recommendation engine and predictive analytics?
March 7, 2008 Questions: I am interested to learn more about the difference between the “recommendation engine” and the predictive...
Which CDC method is the best to achieve staging database with changed data?
March 7, 2008 Which method is the best to achieve my goal (staging database with changed data) taking into consideration the issues of...
Apart from bloated dimension, what are the negatives of using all known attributes in your SCD?
March 7, 2008 Question: Apart from bloated dimension, what are the negatives of using all known attributes in your slowly changing dimensions...
When we deliver a data warehouse solution, the users tell us it doesn’t match what they need. What do we need to do?
December 24, 2007 How long did it take before you delivered the data? My guess is that it was longer than three months. Within three months, the...
How do I convince my reluctant boss to begin work on a data warehouse?
December 24, 2007 It sounds, to me, that your boss is not ready for or does not comprehend what a DW can do for the organization.
Should I be concerned about my boyfriend is spending 60 to 70 hours per week on a data warehouse project?
December 24, 2007 First, let me say that I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker or counselor of any kind when it comes to...
Is there a good book for BI project management that you would recommend?
November 28, 2007 Very soon there will be a very good book for Agile BI PM. I am hoping to publish it in the fall of 2008.
