The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition)
"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. Here is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques--the most comprehensive collection ever written. 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."
Single most authoritative guide from the inventor of the technique.
- Presents unique modeling techniques for e-commerce, and shows strategies for optimizing performance.
- Companion Web site provides updates on dimensional modeling techniques, links related to sites, and source code where appropriate.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Excellent blend of technical and business concepts
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...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 05, 2007 Type: User Review |
Good for Dimentional Modeling
I did not get chance to read it, but everybody says it the best source to learn Dimensional Modeling. I our project, the DBA is doing it.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
A tool rather than a toolkit
This book delivers exactly what it says. Except that word "toolkit" in its title - you'd better think about this book being a single tool, not a whole toolkit. Ralph Kimball actually has a whole lot of books on data warehousing published, this is...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 09, 2007 Type: User Review |
Building a Data Warehouse
Excelent book, it shows how to build a good data warehouse by using the best patterns. I recommend the book to you, it is not as boring as another books regarding this issue, in addition it is cheap.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 08, 2007 Type: User Review |
Great Book
This is a great book. Wish there was something like this for relational(3NF) modeling as well.
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