Joe, What is your role with this new DW? Architect? Implementer? Jack-of-all-trades? - I felt Ralph's books gave me a good understanding of the objectives of DW. He tends to approach DW from the end objective. Ralph especially shines when describing the different types of DW. For example, a grocery store checkout register would be a point-in-time DW. But that wouldn't correctly model a warehouse. You might take point-in-time snapshots at the end of every month, but a lot can happen during the month, with goods arriving at the warehouse or leaving. So you need different DW models for different applications. - I've tried to read Inmon's books and articles. He tends to approach DW from the IS point of view. They never made sense to me, but others swear by Inmon. People tend to fall into one of the camps (Kimball vs. Inmon) from an emotional standpoint. Get the feel of the people in your group. Both authors generously have many articles on their web sites, but it is good to get a book and read it cover-to-cover to get an organized introduction. For the Oracle DBA, the implementation go-to guy as far as I'm concerned is Tim Gorman. Attend one of his seminars if you can. He is very generous with papers and utilities on his web site. Here is a link to a paper he gave at our user group: http://www.tcoug.org/Archive/Fall2004/DWScaling_TCOUG_101404.ppt Dennis Williams