Thanks for the encouragement, KWymore.

It sounds like I'm mimicking your approach as well - taking an existing relational OLTP model and building from that. I've used view in my relational DB to act as my fact and dimension tables, so that I don't have to build a data warehouse and worry about ETL for my proof of concept. Although I know the Contoso and AW sample DBs are comprehensive, I really wanted to work with my data to see it come to life. So far the experience has been great.