The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling

Excellent book and in perfect condition. I recommend the seller

Although I got a second hand book, it looks as good as a new book. No tear or wear on the book.This book is an amazing one. This is the best book to learn about Data Warehousing. Ralph has described using the most real time scenarios.If you are new to Data Warehousing, I say you should definitely read this book. And if you are working, then you sure must go through the individual chapters based on domains. He has explained it very beautifully!!

This book is a great primer on data warehouses: what they are for, how data should be organized in the warehouse, and what you can do with it. There's no code or programming - just a solid explanation of the concepts along with many good examples.This book was perfect for me. I have data that I needed to analyze; I understood normalized relational databases and pivot tables; I'd heard the jargon such as "star schema" and "snowflake schema" but didn't know exactly what they meant. This book put all the concepts together and moved my level of understanding up to a new level. I am not building the data warehouse myself but now I can talk the talk with those who are.I had been using pivot tables in Excel to do some analysis, but had been frustrated at times by not being able to get things to work out as I wanted. After reading this book, I understand why - it was because I had not organized the underlying data correctly. To anyone with a relation database background, the organization of data in a data mart or warehouse is very different and goes against one's instinct to normalize and eliminate redundant data. Getting past that was key to getting my data right, and that's what this book did for me.However, if you are the person who will actually be building the data warehouse, you will need to go beyond this book to one that shows you how to actually do what you need. For example, this book does not go into "details" like ETL - how you actually get data into the warehouse from the transaction database - and the other practical details you will need to know. This book is also database and tool agnostic - those are all details that you will need to find elsewhere once you understand the concepts here.My only quibble is that this book is quite pricey for what you get.

This books sets the foundation for data presentation organization. Although there is a bit of bias trying to push the idea Dimensional Modeling is the data modeling for all DW needs, all it brings is at a time revolutionary and time tested, proven and reliable data organizing for exploring methodology. Anyone developing a career in Business Intelligence MUST read this book from cover to cover. (You also need to read Supercharge Your DW by Dan Linstedt too, to close the big picture.)

Book: very informative. Just what I need in my knowledge pursuit. Seller: great seller, packaged well. Quick delivery.

Having been around data warehousing since 2004, I have relied on Kimball's teaching. Having gone to his training sessions in person, this is as close as you can get to taking him home. I really find the various examples timeless and a great starting point for almost any industry. Anyone starting a data warehouse, or trying to put the concepts together should give this book a serious look.

I like the examples provided in the book and the scenarios covered.I haven't finished it fully but it seems to be a good start.

This is my first Kindle version of any book so keep this in mind. I just wanted to say that the quality of the scan is not perfect. In some places the words are scrunched together. Other places there seem to be ink blotches. I just realized these blemishes might be in the paperback version too, so if they are disregard what I'm saying. But if the paperback version does not, then the eBook translation is not 100%. No biggie, just my first impression of a Kindle eBook.Content-wise, I just started reading so I expect this book to still be useful even though it's a bit long in the tooth.

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Ralph Kimball is known as the father of dimensional modelling for a reason. This is one of the IT books you have to read cover to cover for two reasons.1. It is a well thought out, thorough but easy to read book2. The book builds on each preceding chapter

No doubt about the content of the book , but the good part is it's paperback version is available in India at such a reasonable price.

Strukturen und Aufbau von Datenbanken werden in verständlicher Art und an vielen Beispielen in diesem Buch beschrieben. Durch die stufenweise Erweiterung des Beispiel-Datenmodells erschließen sich in eindrucksvoller Weise die Möglichkeiten und Variationen einer relationalen Datenbank.Obgleich das Buch schon einige Jahre alt ist, hat es nicht an Wert verloren. Die Prämissen sind auch heute noch ohne große Einschränkungen anwendbar.Wirklich empfehlenswert.