Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses

"Ralph Kimball provides clear-cut guidelines on how to model data and design data warehouses to support advanced multidimensional decision support systems. With Kimball's step-by-step instructions, readers will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for creating, controlling and navigating dimensional business databases that are easy to understand and navigate." (Fatbrain.com; Ganthead.com, 9/01)

This definitive guide succinctly explains how to build a data warehouse by using actual case studies of existing data warehouses developed for specific types of business applications such as retail, manufacturing, banking, insurance, subcriptions and airline reservations. Describes a powerful new model of data warehouse design, the dimensional data warehouse, that provides readers with the ability to quickly analyze complex information in order to make sound decisions. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a toolkit for building dimensional data warehouses and examples of all the databases discussed in the text.

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