http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM1Isda4v7c In this video Dan goes over some Business Intelligence best practices such as why it's a bad idea to add business rules to any Data Warehouse loading routines. The Data Vault methodology explicitly asks you not to do this.<br /><br />The core Data Vault methodology forces you to move "soft" business rules downstream of the Data Warehouse. There are specific reasons for this.