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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Wiley |
| More info: | www.wiley.com | Author(s): | Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, Joy Mundy, Bob Becker |
| Pages: | 718 | Year of publication: | 2010 |
Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group have written articles covering more than 250 topics that define the field of data warehousing (DW).The Kimball Group Reader presents the best of these articles, fully updated to reflect their current thinking & practices.With articles providing critical advice for successfully designing, deploying, and maintaining the DW/BI system, The Kimball Group Reader covers:- Dos and Don'ts for gathering requirements;- The Kimball » Read more... |  |
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Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group have written articles covering more than 250 topics that define the field of data warehousing (DW).The Kimball Group Reader presents the best of these articles, fully updated to reflect their current thinking & practices.With articles providing critical advice for successfully designing, deploying, and maintaining the DW/BI system, The Kimball Group Reader covers:- Dos and Don'ts for gathering requirements;- The Kimball enterprise data warehouse architecture & matrix;- Dimensional modeling tasks & responsibilities;- Fact table & dimension table core concepts;- Data stewardship for conforming dimensions;- Granularity & three fundamental types of fact tables;- Snowflakes & outriggers;- Bridges for handling multi-valued dimension attributes & ragged variable hierarchies;- Nuances encountered in customer dimensions & internationalization issues;- Slowly changing dimensions & hybrid variations;- Subsystems to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data;- & more.