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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit |  | Authors: Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, Joy Mundy, Bob Becker
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 672
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0470149779
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.74
EAN: 9780470149775
Publication Date: January 10, 2008
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In The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, authors Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, and Warren Thornthwaite present a structure for undertaking the awesome task of implementing a data warehouse. As part of a rather select group of professionals actually experienced in building data warehouses, the authors attempt to convey their expertise about how to approach the job. The book focuses on the "Star Lifecycle"--a high-level project-planning approach to evolving existing information systems into an ever-changing data-warehouse solution. --Stephen Plain
Product Description
A thorough update to the industry standard for designing, developing, and deploying data warehouse and business intelligence systems The world of data warehousing has changed remarkably since the first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit was published in 1998. In that time, the data warehouse industry has reached full maturity and acceptance, hardware and software have made staggering advances, and the techniques promoted in the premiere edition of this book have been adopted by nearly all data warehouse vendors and practitioners. In addition, the term "business intelligence" emerged to reflect the mission of the data warehouse: wrangling the data out of source systems, cleaning it, and delivering it to add value to the business. Ralph Kimball and his colleagues have refined the original set of Lifecycle methods and techniques based on their consulting and training experience. The authors understand first-hand that a data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) system needs to change as fast as its surrounding organization evolves. To that end, they walk you through the detailed steps of designing, developing, and deploying a DW/BI system. You'll learn to create adaptable systems that deliver data and analyses to business users so they can make better business decisions. With substantial new and updated content, this second edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit again sets the standard in data warehousing for the next decade. It shows you how to: · Identify and prioritize data warehouse opportunities · Create an architecture plan and select products · Design a powerful, flexible, dimensional model · Build a robust ETL system · Develop BI applications to deliver data to business users · Deploy and sustain a healthy DW/BI environment The authors are members of the Kimball Group. Each has focused on data warehousing and business intelligence consulting and education for more than 15 years; most have written other books in the Toolkit series. Learn more about the Kimball Group and Kimball University at www.kimballgroup.com. This book is also available as part of the Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit Classics Box Set (ISBN: 9780470479575) with the following 3 books: The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition (9780471200246) The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, 2nd Edition (9780470149775) The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit (9780764567575)
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 Just the facts, ma'am.. January 2, 2010
J. Martin (Phila, PA)
This book is worth every penny of it's price if, for nothing else, but the excellent development of fact and dimension table architecture.
Yes, we have all created our own ad hoc versions of a fact table (intersection table) when many-to-many relationships collide on our ERD, but having the concept take center stage as the prime focus of logical design is wonderfully developed here by Kimball et al.
A must read for every DW practitioner. September 7, 2009
Prashanth R. Maruthur Chakrapani (Chicago, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great read with valuable nuggets littered across every chapter. Years of experience have been laid out in the book. The 2nd edition is much better than its predecessor. Every topic has adequate space allocated to it. One should not expect an extensive review of dimensional modeling techniques in this book even-though, the authors have explained the topic very well. For a more detailed review with examples, you should purchase the toolkit on dimensional modeling. The same applies to designing the ETL sub-system.
 Learning the language of data warehousing June 5, 2009
F. Hu (Seattle, WA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What I found compelling about this book is that it teaches you the lingo of the data warehouse. Just what is a fact or a dimension and why would you call it that and how would you make those.
 No active links March 15, 2009
Sam Vikers (San Francisco, CA USA)
5 out of 25 found this review helpful
The publisher didn't include active links in the Kindle version. With fiction books that isn't much of an issue, since a reader generally reads from start to finish. However, many readers use technical books as reference, only skipping to chapters and sections which address specific topics.
Amazon support tells me that publishers are requested, but not required, to include active links in books they submit. With the volume of books they receive they can't check to assure that active links have been included.
It took me an hour to navigate to the chapter I was interested in. (I could have just paged through to chapter 3, but I kept trying to use the five-way navigation controller to get there. I didn't know at first that Amazon would sell Kindle books without active links.)
I've suggested that Amazon require publishers to indicate whether or not they have included active links, so readers can decide whether they want to buy a Kindle book with hobbled functionality. Until then, I would encourage the first buyer of a book without active links to post a review to that effect so other readers can decide whether or not to purchase a book that will be difficult to navigate.
Amazon was very prompt at refunding the purchase price of the Kindle book (after my initial customer service request, which was apparently a bit too vague for them to understand.) Still, I'd like to see them do more to assure that the products they sell are useful and not just anything the publisher shovels to them.
Excellent step-by-step explanations September 30, 2008
I. Wallace (Boston)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Love this book. Written mostly in plain English (for those of us who are not techies).. it also provides sections were it deciphers technical acronyms and concepts.
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