Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45464 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Review
"...this is the daddy of data warehousing process books. No other material available so concisely and precisely explains what is required from a data warehousing solution...this is a great book..." (Enterprise Server Magazine, July 2002)

Review
"...this is the daddy of data warehousing process books. No other material available so concisely and precisely explains what is required from a data warehousing solution...this is a great book..." (Enterprise Server Magazine, July 2002)

From the Back Cover
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.

The authors begin with fundamental design recommendations and gradually progress step–by–step through increasingly complex scenarios. Clear–cut guidelines for designing dimensional models are illustrated using real–world data warehouse case studies drawn from a variety of business application areas and industries, including:
∗ Retail sales and e–commerce
∗ Inventory management
∗ Procurement
∗ Order management
∗ Customer relationship management (CRM)
∗ Human resources management
∗ Accounting
∗ Financial services
∗ Telecommunications and utilities
∗ Education
∗ Transportation
∗ Health care and insurance

By the end of the book, you will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for designing dimensional databases that are easy to understand and provide fast query response. You will also learn how to create an architected framework that integrates the distributed data warehouse using standardized dimensions and facts.

Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable.

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Customer Reviews

Required reading for any DW professional !
Dimensional modelling is the key to designing conformed dimension data warehouses.

This authoritative book covers dimensional modelling in great depth, but at the same time is very accessible. You will want it by your side to reference its examples of how to cope with various scenarios.

ps The companion volume, the DW Life Cycle Toolkit by Kimball & Ross, covers higher level aspects of data warehousing, and is just as good.

Kimball is the standard book to own on this subject
Excellent ground up introduction to dimensional modelling. If you think you need this book, then this is most certainly the book to get you started and take you well into the subject.

Ralph Kimball wrote the first edition of this book. This edition has been updated by another author and includes (for example sections on finance, health and education).

Will not disappoint. We used this book as a management communication vehicle (we gave them copies and that saved a LOT of repeated and dumb questions). Minor issue, - not enough mauve in the book.

Recommended if you want to get into marts, warehouses and a series of career opportunities. I also recommend the series (they look very similar to this cover).

A must have
I picked this up about 18 months ago as a primer, and it's still helping me today as I continue to develop new datawarehouse designs. Each time I have to do something for the first time, there's usually a chapter in the book for it. I feel a lot more comfortable having it on my desk!!