| The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition) | 
| Authors: Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (27 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14810
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1
ISBN: 0471200247
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.40380285574
EAN: 9780471200246
ASIN: 0471200247
Publication Date: April 26, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Building a Data Warehouse March 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Great Book March 8, 2007
This is a great book. Wish there was something like this for relational(3NF) modeling as well.
Raman Marwah.
 very bad.... December 11, 2006
6 out of 37 found this review helpful
whatever pioneer or genius he is in the DW industry, the book is pretty bad, i wouldn't recommend it at all. the way he tries to convey concepts, explain techniques....
very bad organization, not clear but confusing sometimes, and very poor logical flow... he tries to make a big deal out of DW, when in fact it's not such a fancy or intellect intensive subject. very simple concepts are even hard to understand. someone else would be able to write a book more powerful and straight to the point in 100 pages MAX, and be much more useful....
it sucks when leaders don't know how to express themselves, maybe he was looking forward to have readers learn enough in DW to get projects started but not be able to do squat, and get some business from consulting...
Very solid book June 14, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
As someone new to OLAP, I found this book to be VERY helpful really getting a solid handle on OLAP. My company needed to understand and move forward on building a OLAP solution. This book helped my get a handle on what we needed to do, and a high level of how to go about it.
This is the first book I'd recommend to anyone interested in OLAP.
More than just a great read June 10, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
In my mind this book is defintely the most definitive guide to dimensional modeling. Although there are some chapters (the last two that deals with process and other issues, the biggest part of the book is solely about dimensional modeling. Yes the first chapter deals with what it is (in general), why we would like to use dimensional modeling and some myths and caveats. However, from chapter 2 through 12, the book is hand-on.
Chapters 2 - 5 is for me the most impressive chapters of the book as it takes several business processes that is common in many businesses and discuss the design of the star cshemas in great depth. However, nowhere in the book is any design upheld as a panacea -- everywhere the book discusses at great length the possible problems and the design decisions to be made. It thus emphasizes that there is no "one-size fits all" in dimensioanl modeling.
Chapters 6, 7 and 8 deals with CRM, Accounting and HR respectively, while chapters 9 - 14 deals with different industries and their peculiar problems. The industrues are: Telecomms and utilities, Transportation, Education, Healthcare and e-commerce. Each chapter introduces new design guidelines and new problem areas anbd their possible solutions. Chapter 15 deals with the Insurance industry and essentially serves as a nicesummary of the proposed techniques as most are emplyed in the Insurance case study.
If you do not have a fairly good understanding of dimensional modeling after reading this text I would be very surprised.
However, it is more than just a read to know about dimensional modeling. The way the case studies are handled and the problems identified and discussed also makes it a true reference book. I think evrybody involved in dimensional modeling should have one on his/her desk.
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