“ralph kimball”

The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Second Edition is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques - the most comprehensive collection ever written. In this new edition - more than 40% new and updated - Kimball shows specific technologies for common business applications, including: Retail sales, I... More

In its simplest terms, this book is a step-by-step methodology for designing, developing, and deploying data marts and data warehouses. It shows how dimensional design fits in the overall lifecycle of planning, designing, developing, and deploying data marts and data warehouses. In other words, it c... More

The single most authoritative guide on the most difficult phase of building a data warehouse The extract, transform, and load (ETL) phase of the data warehouse development life cycle is far and away the most difficult, time-consuming, and labor-intensive phase of building a data warehouse. Done righ... More

The first book to offer in-depth coverage of star schema aggregate tables Dubbed by Ralph Kimball as the most effective technique for maximizing star schema performance, dimensional aggregates are a powerful and efficient tool that can accelerate data warehouse queries more dramatically than any ot... More

The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit shows data warehouse developers how to effectively manage the ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) phase of the data warehouse development lifecycle. The authors show developers the best methods for extracting data from scattered sources throughout the enterprise, remov... More

Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2005 gives practical examples implemented on the Microsoft's Business Intelligence (BI) toolset. The book is structured around the major phases of a data warehouse project plan: design, develop, deploy, and maintain. It also includes many detailed examples of how to ... More

"Ralph's latest book ushers in the second wave of the Internet. . . . Bottom line, this book provides the insight to help companies combine Internet-based business intelligence with the bounty of customer data generated from the internet."--William Schmarzo, Director World Wide Solutions, Sales, and... More

A thorough update to the industry standard for designing, developing, and deploying data warehouse and business intelligence systems The world of data warehousing has changed remarkably since the first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit was published in 1998. In that time, the data war... More

The latest edition of the single most authoritative guide on dimensional modeling for data warehousing! Dimensional modeling has become the most widely accepted approach for data warehouse design. Here is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques-- the most comprehensive collection ever... More