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Ryan Dolley's avatar

I can at least see an argument that OBT might be sufficient if the database has embedded metadata that is extremely descriptive for AI to use in finding and properly querying that BT. But that doesn’t solve the problem that OBT analytics databases have the same metrics repeated over and over again across tables, making AI discoverability just a speed run of the disaster that is human discoverability in such systems.

In the end I think OBT has an important role to play, and that role is ‘we need this shit now!!’

But when you need it to be accurate, performant, understandable and repeatable you need to model for those outcomes.

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Donald Parish's avatar

The relational model abides. And nothing is more relational

than the “star schema”.

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