Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses

Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses

by RalphKimball (Author)

Synopsis

This definitive guide succinctly explains how to build a data warehouse by using actual case studies of existing data warehouses developed for specific types of business applications such as retail, manufacturing, banking, insurance, subcriptions and airline reservations. Describes a powerful new model of data warehouse design, the dimensional data warehouse, that provides readers with the ability to quickly analyze complex information in order to make sound decisions. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a toolkit for building dimensional data warehouses and examples of all the databases discussed in the text.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 21 Mar 1996

ISBN 10: 0471153370
ISBN 13: 9780471153375

Media Reviews
Ralph Kimball provides clear-cut guidelines on how to model data and design data warehouses to support advanced multidimensional decision support systems. With Kimball's step-by-step instructions, readers will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for creating, controlling and navigating dimensional business databases that are easy to understand and navigate. (Fatbrain.com; Ganthead.com, 9/01)
Author Bio
RALPH KIMBALL currently designs large data warehouses for a living, in addition to teaching and consulting. He also writes the Data Warehouse Architect column for DBMS magazine and was co-inventor of the Xerox Star workstation, the first commercial product to use mice, icons, and windows. Dr. Kimball was vice president of applications at Metaphor Computer Systems, and founder and CEO of Red Brick Systems. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.