The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471200247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Margy coauthored the highly acclaimed The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, consults on data warehouse projects worldwide, and teaches data warehouse design for Kimball University. He writes the "Data Warehouse Designer" column for Intelligent Enterprise magazine and is also the author of the bestsellin
Greatly expanded to cover both basic and advanced techniques for optimizing data warehouse design, this second edition to Ralph Kimball's classic guide is more than sixty percent updated.The authors begin with fundamental design recommendations and gradually progress step-by-step through increasingly complex scenarios. The latest edition of the single most authoritative guide on dimensional modeling for data warehousing! Dimensional modeling has become the most widely accepted approach for data warehouse design. Clear-cut guidelines for designing dimensional models are illustrated using real-world data warehouse case studies drawn from a variety of business application areas and industries, including:* Retail sales and e-commerce* Inventory management* Procurement* Order management* Customer relationship management (CRM)* Human resources
Excellent blend of technical and business concepts Dennis M. Clark There are at least 3 excellent books from the Kimball Group in their data warehouse toolkit series. This one, "The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling", is extremely interesting and useful, especially because the various concepts are presented in the context of a widely varied series of specific business requirements being addressed by a data warehouse. The reader not only . "The First Must-Read of Them All" according to Fábio de Salles. This books sets the foundation for data presentation organization. Although there is a bit of bias trying to push the idea Dimensional Modeling is the data modeling for all DW needs, all it brings is at a time revolutionary and time tested, proven and reliable data organizing for exploring methodology. Anyone developing a career in Business Intelligence MUST read this book fro. Kindle Version so so This is my first Kindle version of any book so keep this in mind. I just wanted to say that the quality of the scan is not perfect. In some places the words are scrunched together. Other places there seem to be ink blotches. I just realized these blemishes might be in the paperback version too, so if they are disregard what I'm saying. But if the paperback version does not, th
No other material available so concisely and precisely explains what is required from a data warehousing solutionthis is a great book" (Enterprise Server Magazine, July 2002) . "this is the daddy of data warehousing process books