StarTracker ™ In 1997, if… acquired the rights to commercialize Ralph Kimball’s StarTracker query tool. StarTracker had been introduced in Ralph’s book The Data Warehouse Toolkit (1996) and was heralded as the first query tool to address complex queries using behavioral dimensions, a methodology that exploits the benefits of the star schema. Customers have used Kimball’s methodology and StarTracker to prototype their data marts. Many end users have said that once they learned how to use StarTracker, they could find no other query and reporting tool as powerful and easy to use. Because StarTracker had been designed originally as an educational tool, companies were forced to compromise and purchase an enterprise-strength product that did not provide behavioral dimensions. If you have purchased Ralph’s book with the freeware version in the back, or if you are a current StarTracker user, we want to provide some level of support and information about StarTracker so stay tuned to our Star Tracker pages on our web site. StarTracker has now been succeeded by Synchrony, and we will provide an upgrade path and full support for all users that upgrade to Synchrony. Please contact us directly for details regarding upgrading from StarTracker to a full Synchrony license.
StarTracker FAQ