The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses

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Ralph Kimball Laura Reeves Margy Ross Warren Thornthwaite

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

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by Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite "All of the authors of this book worked together at Metaphor Computer Systems over a period that spanned more than ten years, from 1982 to..." (more) SIPs: fact table diagram, fact table time key, data staging area, aggregate navigator, bastion server (more) CAPs: Business Dimensional Lifecycle, Data Warehouse Bus Architecture, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Project Planning Business Requirement Definition, Provides Input (more)

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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com 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 Book Description "A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system. Highly recommended." -Robert S. Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc. In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses. Important topics include: * The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and management * Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently * Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules * The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses * A framework for creating your technical architecture * Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging * Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance * Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques The CD-ROM supplies you with: * Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities * A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture * Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book * Checklists to use at key points in the project See all Editorial Reviews

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Paperback: 800 pages

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Publisher: Wiley; Bk&CD-Rom edition (August 13, 1998)

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Language: English

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ISBN: 0471255475

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Inside This Book (learn more) First Sentence: All of the authors of this book worked together at Metaphor Computer Systems over a period that spanned more than ten years, from 1982 to 1994. Read the first page Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more) fact table diagram, fact table time key, data staging area, aggregate navigator, bastion server, source data marts, end user data access tool, overall data warehouse, dimension table detail, requirements findings document, data warehouse security, core fact http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471255475/103-2404671-4882239?v=glance&n=283155 (2 sur 7)01/11/2005 16:53:50

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table, conformed dimensions, data warehouse initiative, your data warehouse, dimension customer key, business support analysts, first data mart, front room metadata, technical architecture plan, value band reporting, star schema optimization, specific fact table, current rolling month, semiadditive facts Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more) Business Dimensional Lifecycle, Data Warehouse Bus Architecture, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Project Planning Business Requirement Definition, Provides Input, Fans Fro, Informed Task Results, Optional Involvement, Project Review, Visual Basic, Design Goal, Business Proj Lead, Club Card, The B-tree, Data Track, Secure Sockets Layer, Over the Counter, Closed High, Daily Incr, Promotion Data Mart, Initial Disk, New Zealand, Ship Facts, None None, Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing New! Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! Search Inside This Book:

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses by Ralph Kimball on 4 pages Data Mining Techniques : For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support by Michael J. A. Berry on page 404, page 637, and page 639 The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification : Revision 1.1/Omg Document No 91.12.1 by Omg on page 370 United States of America (The Americas) by Brian Elliott in Copyright 21 books that cite this book:

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Clickstream Data Warehousing by Mark Sweiger on 9 pages

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Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services) (Programmer to Programmer) by Mark Chaffin on page 485, page 545, and page 549 The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition) by Ralph Kimball in Front Matter, page 331, and Back Cover See all 21 books citing this book

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Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Comprehensive and thought provoking, January 15, 2002 Reviewer: Gary Sprandel (Tallahassee, Florida) - See all my reviews This book covers the complete life cycle including project management, requirements definition, technical architecture design, dimensional modeling, physical design, data staging, and finally deployment and maintenance. I think his approach to planning is a good one, and I am fighting to find the necessary business sponsor and a clear business motivation. Their approach to interviewing key players is a good way to collect requirements. The importance of conformed dimensions and building a data warehouse bus architecture matrix is a great exercise. Some of the controversy with respect to his advocacy of denormalizing has to do with how "pure" your warehouse is. For example if I am merely providing analysis of production data or querying vertically across data marts, I would retain the data in normalized E/R, but present a more dimensional view to end users. I appreciated the discussion on back room versus front room metadata and using active metadata to drive operations. I was disappointed with the lack of discussion of warehouse testing with only a few pages on data quality and cleansing during data staging, and just one paragraph on balancing between the warehouse and production data. This book is very useful, and the accompanying CD will save time creating your own project documents. Was this review helpful to you?

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Comprehensive and well written, January 3, 2001 Reviewer: Laura Hazen (Northville, MI USA) - See all my reviews An excellent methodology! As a relational database developer, it was extremely helpful. I impressed my employer by presenting many fo the book's idea and used to information to create data models for a proposal. Was this review helpful to you?

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Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. Excellence for starter and advanced data warehouse practioners, October 24, 2005 Reviewer: M. Konate - See all my reviews For a data warehouse novice this excellent starting point and it take through the advance concepts. In short, it's a reference book for any data warehouse practitioner Was this review helpful to you?

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Excelent, January 5, 2005 Reviewer: Cristian Rivera "Cristian" (Antofagasta, Antofagasta Chile) - See all my reviews I've been involved in a DW project and began searching books about DW. I take a lot of time to find this , and finaly think that I no made a mistake. It covers all aspects of DW with samples and recomendations. It's the best in that topic. Was this review helpful to you?

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0 of 20 people found the following review helpful: how can i purchage this book in India?, August 4, 2004 Reviewer: njp "njp" (njp) - See all my reviews Sir, The article is covered is quite good, but How can i purchage all datawarehouse book in India with indian price? Give me contact person in Detail. Thanks Mr Patel Was this review helpful to you?

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6 of 32 people found the following review helpful: Definitely not Recommmended for Anybody, May 17, 2004 Reviewer: Leon Nel (SOUTH AFRICA) - See all my reviews Sorry to say! But I'm a student specializing in Data warehousing and Ralph Kimball is certainly not getting to any point in The Lifecycle Toolkit! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

He gives to many unstructured examples! He never gets to the point! Ralph restates and contradicts himself again and again! He could have summarized the book in 100 pages ( but then would not have made any $$$) The book might just discourage most people from Data warehousing!

And the list can go on and on! Sorry Ralph better luck next time Was this review helpful to you?

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