Dimensional modeling described in the Kimball Toolbook was in its 3rd edition 15 years ago yet is still the latest in data modeling advice. So much is different in cloud warehouses that many of those best practices are now bad practices. In this video Dave Fowler, the founder of Chartio and author of Cloud Data Management goes over what no longer applies, and what does.

Effective data governance, lineage and discoverability are key to fully leveraging data within an organization. In this video, Sam Foltin of DTSQUARED will discuss why these processes are so important to a high-functioning data organization, and also share how they are using the metadata artifacts from dbt runs to provide additional insight to inform data governance and discoverability through a dbt integration they've built for Collibra, a metadata management tool.