The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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Rated 5 starsAs essential as the first edition
I was undecided if I should buy this book after having read the first edition, but I'm happy I did. The second edition updates many of the concepts contained in the first and includes some new chapters on hot topics like CRM and Telecommunications (which is the most important sector for dw at least here in Italy where I live). I think that Kimball books are everything that's needed to design good, robust and flexible data...
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Rated 5 starsPractical Wisdom
There are a lot of data warehousing books out there that try to answer the question: 'Why'? Why data warehouses are needed to help businesses make better decisions - why the OLTP systems that run the business can't do this - and sometimes even why businesses ought to invest in data warehouses. These books were terrifically useful to us years ago, when we needed help (and scholarly footnotes) in our data warehouse project...
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Rated 5 starsGet the fundamentals of Dimension modeling from this book
This book contains concepts and implementation methodology associated with building and deploying a data warehouse. To understand data warehouse, it is important to understand the difference between an OLTP system and a data warehouse (an OLAP system). The author first emphasizes this difference before getting into the nitty gritty of data modeling. The author is a leading advocate of Dimension modeling. He gives clear reasons...
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Rated 5 starsOne of the best computer books I have ever read.
For people who have a transactional database background, such as myself, and are moving into the data warehouse arena, this book should be the bible! Kimball eloquently shows how a company's business model and thier data needs can be meshed perfectly, and leaves the reader wondering why this is not done in every case. In fact, he actually answers that question several times throughout the book.The real-world examples serve...
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Rated 5 starsMy peers call it "The Data Warehouse Bible"
Every once in a while a technical book comes along that changes the way the world looks. "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" is just such a book. If you have spent your career in the world of relational database models, you owe yourself a read of this book to see a new and different paradigm. This book shows where the "rubber meets the road" for data warehouses accessed by end-users to answer real business questions. As a technology...
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