 | Data Strategy by Sid Adelman
Buy new: £27.54 / Used from: £28.69 A great overview of Enterprise Data Architecture, and one of the only books I have found that describes all the components that make up a coherent data architecture and strategy. Highly recommended.
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 | Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison Wesley Signature Series) by Gregor Hohpe
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £13.99 |
 | The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit by Ralph Kimball
Buy new: £20.44 / Used from: £18.01 An updated classic. This should be on every data warehousing professional's bookshelf.
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 | DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufman Series in Data Management Systems) by William H. Inmon
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £26.76 Another impressive data warehousing book. As a successful DA you need both a Kimball and Inmom perspective!
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 | Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality : Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits by Larry P English
Buy new: £33.38 / Used from: £33.05 Base your Data Quality and Data Governance strategy around this and you won't go far wong
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 | Data Modeling Essentials (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Graeme C. Simsion
Buy new: £31.80 / Used from: £19.99 This will give you everything you need to know about data modeling. Highly recommended
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 | The Data Model Resource Book: v.1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises: Vol 1 by Len Silverston
Buy new: £25.75 / Used from: £23.00 Why pay thousands for a data model when volume 1, 2 and 3 will give you some great data models to kick-start your efforts.
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 | The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Universal Data Models by Industry Types: v. 2 by Len Silverston
Buy new: £26.70 / Used from: £20.00 |
 | The Data Model Resource Book: Universal Patterns for Data Modeling v. 3 by Len Silverston
Buy new: £19.53 / Used from: £27.55 |
 | Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £3.00 If you don't know SQL you should. Many good books on the subject, this is a good one. SQL is a core langauge for a DA
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 | Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit by Michael Morrison
Buy new: £10.93 / Used from: £13.95 Another key language for the DA to know. Plenty of books on the subject, but this is a good one to get you up and running.
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 | Master Data Management (The MK/OMG Press) by David Loshin
Buy new: £21.07 / Used from: £18.50 A big topic in the DA world. Not a lot of books on the subject, but this one is good.
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 | Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few
Buy new: £15.05 / Used from: £14.34 |
 | e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information into Knowledge into Profit by Bernard Liautaud
Buy used from: £0.01 Direct from the founder of Business Objects! Not many generic BI books around.
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 | Business Intelligence, Reprint Edition by E; Luckevich, M; Misner, S Vitt
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £14.50 A great book for Business Intelligence
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 | Tapping into Unstructured Data: Integrating Unstructured Data and Textual Analytics into Business Intelligence by William H. Inmon
Buy new: £27.19 / Used from: £19.02 Understand and tap into a vast store of corprate information
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 | Information Security Management Principles: An ISEB Certificate by David Alexander
Buy new: £17.85 / Used from: £15.22 Mis-understand this topic at your peril! This book will bring you up to speed in InfoSec.
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 | The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data by Ralph Kimball
Buy new: £18.14 / Used from: £15.00 You will alwasy need to understand the best way to implement the bulk data movement tools know as - ETL
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 | Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Life-cycle Guide by David Marco
Buy used from: £47.63 Build your Metadata repository with expert help.
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 | The C.R.M. Pocketbook (The Pocketbook) by David Alexander
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.94 A key store of data that every organisation has, learn all about it here.
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 | Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
Buy new: £21.80 / Used from: £18.99 2nd Edition of the best IT book in the world. This is where my book collection started in 1993. Every IT professional needs a copy of this book.
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 | Essentials of Business Process Outsourcing (Essentials Series) by Rick L. Click
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