RE: Is there an midrange Data Warehouse forum or, if not..

["Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those of you that are doing one or more Data Warehouses/Data Marts/Operational Data Stores a few questions for now:
 
- Did you model your DW/DM/ODS?
 
- Do you tend to use the Bill Inmon or Ralph Kimbal architecture?
- Is your design truly dimensional (i.e., fact table/dimensions)?  If not, what is your architecture?
- How many Terabytes is your DW/DM/ODS, not your raw data, your DW/DM/ODS?
- If dimensional, roughly now many rows in your fact and dimension tables?
- Do you use surrogate keys?  If so, how did you come up with your key structure?  If not, why not?
- Are you using an ETL tool or build it yourself?   If the former, which one?    
 
Perhaps more later.
 
Thanks,
 
Dave