Relational Vs Multidimensional database

Hi gurus,
Can you please explain me the difference Relational & Multidimensional databases.how tables are linked in both.
But Not the advantages of Multi dimensional DB over the relational DB.
Regards
Ganesh

Hi,
The key to understanding the relationship between DM and ER is that a single ER diagram breaks down into multiple DM diagrams. Think of a large ER diagram as representing every possible business process in the enterprise. The master ER diagram may have Sales Calls, Order Entries, Shipment Invoices, Customer Payments, and Product Returns, all on the same diagram. In a way, the ER diagram does itself a disservice by representing on one diagram multiple processes that never coexist in a single data set at a single consistent point in time. It's no wonder the ER diagram is overly complex. Thus the first step in converting an ER diagram to a set of DM diagrams is to separate the ER diagram into its discrete business processes and to model each one separately. The second step is to select those many-to-many relationships in the ER model containing numeric and additive nonkey facts and to designate them as fact tables. The third step is to denormalize all of the remaining tables into flat tables with single-part keys that connect directly to the fact tables. These tables become the dimension tables. In cases where a dimension table connects to more than one fact table, we represent this same dimension table in both schemas, and we refer to the dimension tables as "conformed" between the two dimensional models.
The resulting master DM model of a data warehouse for a large enterprise will consist of somewhere between 10 and 25 very similar-looking star join schemas. Each star join will have four to 12 dimension tables. If the design has been done correctly, many of these dimension tables will be shared from fact table to fact table. Applications that drill down will simply be adding more dimension attributes to the SQL answer set from within a single star join. Applications that drill across will simply be linking separate fact tables together through the conformed (shared) dimensions. Even though the overall suite of star join schemas in the enterprise dimensional model is complex, the query processing is very predictable because at the lowest level.
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