The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

Ralph Kimball

ISBN 10: 0471255475 / ISBN 13: 9780471255475

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Beschreibung

"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 Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0471255475
• ISBN-13: 9780471255475
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Buchtyp: Book

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Inhaltsangabe

"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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

RALPH KIMBALL has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of today's most internationally well--known speakers, consultants, and teachers on data warehousing. He writes the "Data Warehouse Architect" column for Intelligent Enterprise (formerly DBMS) magazine. Dr. Kimball's coauthors have each founded their own very successful data warehouse consulting firms: Laura Reeves of StarSoft Solutions; Margy Ross of DecisionWorks Consulting; and Warren Thornthwaite of InfoDynamics LLC.