Data Warehouse Design Solutions [With *]

by Christopher Adamson and Michael Venerable

Book Overview

"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword. Let the experts show you how to customize data warehouse designs for real business needs in Data Warehouse Design Solutions. To effectively design a data warehouse, you have to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows you how business managers in different corporate functions actually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047125195X
• ISBN13: 9780471251958
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Real World models....

This book provides down-to-earth models for star schemas. And with each example, the authors examines different approaches for designing the stars and later gives the pros/cons of each approach. A very good book. A must for anyone who designs data warehouse databases.

No-Nonsense

This book from 1st page onwards talks about Data Modeling issues for Datawarehouse in a mature way. Also covers an important issue of integration of datamarts.

Absolute necessity for any DW analyst

A great book full of relevance if you are implementing a data warehouse. It blends technical and business issues perfectly and provide advanced analysis of sophisticated applications

Data warehouse data models for real business problems

What is great about this book is that it discusses design issues in the context of real and common business problems that data warehouses address. Most authors on data warehousing make abstract assertions about the strengths of data warehousing. This intelligent book gives the reader the material to make up his own mind as to what benefits data warehousing brings to a business.

Solve business issues with these DW plans

The authors have written a stunning example of how to make complex issues simple for both newcomers and the experienced.If you have no idea of what the problems are in a product or service fulfillment business or any other of a variety of industries, you can look them up here and get an overview of the problems and a simple design of a star schema that can help resolve the issues.Invaluable for both IT types, Business Analysts and Consultants who want to get beyond the theory and into the real world.Follows Kimball's teachings closely which makes the content even more valuable for those who use "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" as their bible.