- ISBN13: 9780470563106
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
An unparalleled collection of recommended guidelines for data warehousing and business intelligence pioneered by Ralph Kimball and his team of colleagues from the Kimball Group.
Recognized and respected throughout the world as the most influential leaders in the data warehousing industry, Ralph Kimball and the Kimball Group have written articles covering more than 250 topics that define the field of data warehousing. For the first time, the Kimball Group’s incomparable advice, design tips, and best practices have been gathered in this remarkable collection of articles, which spans a decade of data warehousing innovation.
Each group of articles is introduced with original commentaries that explain their role in the overall lifecycle methodology developed by the Kimball Group. These practical, hands-on articles are fully updated to reflect current practices and terminology and cover the complete lifecycle—including project planning, requirements gathering, dimensional modeling, ETL, and business intelligence and analytics.
This easily referenced collection is nothing less than vital if you are involved with data warehousing or business intelligence in any capacity.
As an architect I have always found the Kimball’s books extremely useful as reference materials.
This new addition includes a compilation of the many articles written over the years and some additional bits.This is about the current thoughts of Ralph, Margy,Joy, Bob and Warren. What else should we be asking for?
I will recommend this book to those interested in dimensional modelling.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This book is based on articles that had already appeared, in print or on the web, but it’s much more than a collection. Even if most of the articles were already stored on my pc in electronic form, having them all put together in a book, revised and organized by topic, is a great advantage.
This is an infinitely useful collection of practical tips that can be immediately used to solve common problems in Data Warehouse projects, belonging to many different areas like dimensional design, project management, performance optimization.
The only disadvantage is the added weight on my backpack, because I’m carrying it with me everywhere I go…
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Like many data warehousing professionals, I routinely reference legacy Kimball Group articles and tips – which I’ve found to be amazingly relevant to design problems that I’ve encountered over the years. They have become part of the essential arsenal of tools that I suit up with when heading out into the decidedly non-academic world of client engagements. Over the years I’ve been impressed with how remarkably well the advice in these little gems have survived the test of time – which is so often cruel to technology texts.
The Kimball Group Reader brings all of these materials together, conforms differences in vocabulary, and organizes it thematically as a readable field reference. It can be read cover-to-cover, or rifled through for as-needed solutions. Having these articles in one place, written as if by one voice, organized and accessible, is a joy. In a ½ hour sitting (sadly, my new attention span), I can read through two or three contributions on a topic of interest based on deep practitioner insights and enthusiasm over a period of years, and come away with something useful.
Jim Stagnitto
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Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5