The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses - Couverture souple

Kimball, Ralph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471153370 ISBN 13 : 9780471153375

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Kimball Ralph

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

". . . one of the definitive books of our industry. If you take the time to read only one professional book, make it this book." –W. H. Inmon

One of the most dramatic new developments in database design, the dimensional data warehouse is a powerful database model that.significantly enhances managers′ ability to quickly analyze large, multidimensional data sets. Written by the leading proponent of this revolutionary new approach, this valuable book/CD toolkit outfits you with all the nuts–and–bolts information you need to design, build, manage, and use dimensional data warehouses for virtually any type of business application, as well as software for querying dimensional data warehouses.

Employing many real–life case studies of data warehouses, Ralph Kimball provides clear–cut guidelines on how to model data and design data warehouses to support advanced multidimensional decision support systems. Beginning with the relatively simple example of a data warehouse for a grocery store, he progresses, step–by–step, through an increasingly complex array of business applications in retail, manufacturing, banking, insurance, subscriptions, and airline reservations. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for creating, controlling, and navigating dimensional business databases that are easy to understand and navigate.

On the CD–ROM you′ll find:
∗ Software for querying dimensional data warehouses.
∗ Working models of all the databases described in the book.

Revue de presse :

"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)

"...provides clear–cut guidelines on how to model data and design data warehouses to support advanced multidimensional decision support systems." (Fatbrain.com; Ganthead.com, 9/01)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471153370
• ISBN 13: 9780471153375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416