The Kimball group reader: relentlessly practical tools for data warehousing and business intelligence

This book is a compendium of the best articles and design tips on data warehouse design and implementation published by the Kimball Group from 1995 to the present day. Approximately half of the articles were written by Ralph Kimball.The remaining articles were written by the other members of the Kimball Group, who are also authors of books in the Wiley Data Warehouse Toolkit series. Over the years, these articles and design tips have generated a very significantmarket response. The articles get hundreds of page views per day on the Kimball Group web site, and more than 20,000 data warehouse professionals currentlysubscribe to the Kimball Group design tips. The Kimball Group Reader will organize this valuable content into a useful, logical, and easily referenced framework that does not exist online. The authors will completely revise and update the articles to reflect current practice and terminology. Additionally, eachgroup of articles will be introduced with original commentaries that explain their role and context in the overall lifecycle methodology pioneered by the Kimball Group. The articles will be grouped into eight parts, each beginning with a Part Introduction providing an original overview of the articles: 1. The Basics (16 articles) 2. Pre-Project Planning (13 articles) 3. Organizing the Project (13 articles) 4. Business Requirements (9 articles) 5. Data Architecture (22 articles) 6. Dimensional Modeling Primer (28 articles) 7. More on Dimensions (35 articles) 8. More on Facts (20 articles) 9. Modeling Case Studies (16articles) 10. Back Room ETL, Data Quality, Integration, and Dimensional Delivery (23 articles) 11. Technical Architecture (25 articles) 12. Business Intelligence and Analytics (27 articles) 13. Maintenance and Growth (7 articles) TheKimball Group Reader will provide detailed, technical explanations of how to approach all the major topics when building a data warehouse system. The Reader will not be an arm-chair overview of data warehousing; it will be a pragmatic, hands-on guide that reflects the latest insights of the Kimball Group.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-56310-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 816
• Fecha Publicación: 19/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés