Abstract  Data  warehousing  hastens  the  process  of  retrieving  information  needed  for  decision  making.  The  spider  web  diversity  between  both  end-users  and  data  marts  inc reases  traffic,  load,  and  delay  in  accessing  the  requested  information.  In  this  research,  we  have  developed  a  query  dispatc hing  tool  facilitating  the  access  to  the  information  within  data  marts,  eventually  data  warehouse  in  fast,  and  an  organized   fashionable  way.  The  dispatching  tool  takes  the  query,  analyzes  it,  and  decides  which  data  mart  as  a  destination  that  query   should  be  forwarded  to.  This  research  is  based  on  Ralph  Kimball’s  methodology.  The  results  show  that  the  dispatching  tool  reduces  the  check  time  spent  in  the  data  dictionary  within  a  logical  side of the data warehouse deciding the intended da ta mart and hence, minimizing execution time.  

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