A Fact Table without it's associated Dimensions is useless, however you access it.

This is a Star Schema:

http://www.parkershannon.net/eda/StarSchema.html

This is a Data Mart:

http://www.parkershannon.net/eda/DataMart.html

This is Dimension:

http://www.parkershannon.net/eda/Dimension.html

This is a Fact Table:

http://www.parkershannon.net/eda/FactTable.html