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The Essential Guide to Data Warehousing
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Author: Lou Agosta
List Price: $34.99
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ISBN: 013085087X
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (26 August, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 202,927
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
It's not a technical book!
If you want to guided to data warehousing, don't read this book. If you don't be misled, you must have wasted a lot of time on some irrelervant 'background' or details. This book is not for engineers, maybe for management team.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Things to Consider
The title of this book is appropriate. This is not a "how to", but rather a "guide". Like a seeing eye dog that guides the blind, it leads you down the street...but it doesn't tell you how to walk. If you are looking for specific techniques, this book IS NOT for you. If you are looking for general information, potential pitfalls or design considerations, this IS a book for you. The book probably deserves a place on your shelf as a supplement to your library. I particularly like the chapter regarding metadata. The author gives a meaningful definition that is more useful than the standard "data about data."
Rating: 2 out of 5
Fails to focus on solutions and design
Though Lou Agosta's book is informative in presenting concepts and the process of building a data warehouse, the book never delves into true design. Just when a paragraph is describing an area where you are interested in, there is no examples to explain in detail how tasks should be accomplished. Basically, the book is strong on concepts but very weak in detail.Also, the writing style is difficult to follow since it is filled with short sentences (if they really are sentences) that have no point to themselves. You have to read the next sentence then merge the two in your head to make a complete sentence. Even with these short sentences, it is amazing that the paragraphs are long (or should I say long-winded). What could have been stated in 2 CLEARLY written sentences usually took 2 paragraphs. In summary, I would only recommend this book to someone who simply needs to manage the process without actually getting involved in the details. Even then, I have read other books that provide the same information yet are much clearer.
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