Data Warehouse vs. Dimensional Data Warehouse 1

[moepower]

I'm a newbie to Data Warehousing and have started reading Ralph Kimball's Data Warehousing Toolkit book. I'm curious what is the differences between the normal Data Warehouse concept and the Dimensional Data Warehouse that the Kimball's book discussed?

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[Onzola]

A data warehouse as defined by Bill Inmon is simply a " subject oriented, integrated, non-volatile, time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions."

What Ralph Kimball's (great) book teaches us is a framework for implementing a data warehouse. Dimensions, facts and star-schemas are all a part of this framework.

Enjoy!