Data Warehouse Dimensional Design Foundations Course

Name: Data Warehouse Foundations and Dimensional Design Course
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Turn reporting needs and source data into dimensional models, loading plans, quality controls, and an operable warehouse design.

Data Warehouse Dimensional Design Foundations Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Tashkent, Tokyo, Manama, San Diego, Bangkok, Vienna and more
Next session: 18 – 22 October 2026, Tashkent
Average fee: 5,800 €

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Overview

Data Warehouse Foundations and Dimensional Design Course is a one-week course for data analysts, database professionals, BI developers, reporting specialists, and technical staff, who leave with a Data Warehouse Design Pack. Participants translate reporting needs into warehouse requirements, map sources, define grain, design facts and dimensions, plan ETL and ELT flows, specify quality and metadata controls, and prepare testing, access, loading, and operating procedures. Agile Leaders Training Center develops data warehouse foundations and dimensional design capability.

Who Should Attend

Data analysis functions responsible for trusted analytical data
Database functions responsible for structures, loading, and access
Business intelligence functions responsible for semantic models and reporting sources
Data engineering functions beginning warehouse design and integration work
Reporting functions responsible for requirements, measures, and validation

The course assumes participants can read tables, keys, and basic SQL queries, and leaves out advanced database administration, cloud-platform configuration, programming, and certification preparation.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries building shared analytical data for reporting and decisions.

Data, analytics, business intelligence, and information technology
Finance, operations, performance management, and internal audit
Healthcare, education, retail, and hospitality
Manufacturing, transportation, utilities, and construction
Financial services, telecommunications, technology, and professional services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build warehouse requirements and architecture decisions
Analyze sources, mappings, grain, facts, and dimensions
Apply star-schema and dimensional-modeling methods
Design ETL and ELT loading and quality controls
Evaluate warehouse tests, access, metadata, and operations
Create a data warehouse design pack

Course Agenda

Day 1: Frame Warehouse Requirements

Analytics Need and Subject-Area Canvas
Stakeholder Query and Measure Inventory
Source System and Data Ownership Map
Warehouse Scope and Architecture Decision
Data Warehouse Requirement Catalogue

Day 2: Design the Dimensional Model

Business Process and Grain Declaration
Fact Table and Measure Specification
Dimension Table and Attribute Design
Star Schema Relationship Diagram
Conformed Dimension Bus Matrix

Day 3: Map and Load Warehouse Data

Source-to-Target Mapping Sheet
Staging Area and Integration Flow
ETL and ELT Selection Matrix
Slowly Changing Dimension Method
Incremental Load and Recovery Plan

Day 4: Control Quality and Operations

Data Quality Rule Register
Metadata and Lineage Catalogue
Warehouse Reconciliation Test Pack
Role and Data Access Matrix
Load Monitoring and Support Runbook

Day 5: Practice Warehouse Design

Exercise: Translate Reporting Needs into Requirements
Exercise: Declare Grain and Design a Star Schema
Exercise: Map Sources and Plan Data Loads
Exercise: Validate Quality, Security, and Operations
Capstone: Data Warehouse Design Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities based on reporting needs in healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and financial services.

Suggested activity: convert decision questions into subject areas, measures, sources, scope, and warehouse requirements.
Suggested activity: declare grain and design fact tables, dimensions, keys, relationships, and conformed attributes.
Suggested activity: build source mappings and loading steps with quality, history, reconciliation, and recovery controls.
Suggested activity: assemble a design pack linking architecture, models, tests, access, metadata, monitoring, and support.

FAQs

Who suits data warehouse foundations and dimensional design training, and what does it assume?

Data analysis, database, BI, reporting, and beginning data-engineering functions suit the training; it assumes familiarity with tables, keys, and basic SQL queries.

How does data warehouse training differ from database administration training?

Data warehouse training concentrates on analytical requirements, dimensional models, integration, history, quality, and reporting use, while database administration training concentrates on platform configuration, availability, backup, and technical operation.

Why is grain important in dimensional design?

Grain states what one fact-table row represents, guiding measures, dimensions, keys, loading rules, and valid aggregation before the model is built.

When should ETL or ELT be used in a data warehouse?

ETL or ELT should be selected according to target-platform capability, transformation location, data volume, governance, lineage, operational control, team skills, and recovery needs.

How should a data warehouse design be tested?

A warehouse design should be tested through source reconciliation, row and measure checks, relationship validation, history rules, access tests, load monitoring, failure handling, and reporting acceptance.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Data Warehouse Design Pack containing requirements, architecture decisions, grain, facts, dimensions, source mappings, load plans, quality rules, metadata, tests, access, monitoring, and support procedures. It changes disconnected reporting extracts into a traceable warehouse design. The pack supports review, build planning, validation, operation, and controlled extension.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Tashkent	Week 42, 2026 18 – 22 October 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Tokyo	Week 43, 2026 19 – 23 October 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Manama	Week 43, 2026 25 – 29 October 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
San Diego	Week 44, 2026 26 – 30 October 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€14,000
Bangkok	Week 44, 2026 1 – 5 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Vienna	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Amman	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Frankfurt	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Doha	Week 49, 2026 6 – 10 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Dubai	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Amsterdam	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Milan	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Manama	Week 01, 2027 10 – 14 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Marbella	Week 02, 2027 17 – 21 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Barcelona	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700

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Data Warehouse Dimensional Design Foundations Course