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Data Warehousing in the Real World : A Practical Guide for Building Decision Support Systems
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Author: Sam Anahory, Dennis Murray
List Price: $57.99
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ISBN: 0201175193
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (24 July, 1997)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 164,691
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Good and Practical
Purchased Kimbal's book and this one. Found Data Warehousing in the Real World to be good at, not only demonstrating the conceptual pieces of a data warehouse, but also the integral technical and developmental aspects of data warehouse design. Kimbal's book drones on and on about this and that (business) senario, but is only useful if you are modeling that specific senario (and doesn't explain it very well either). Data Warehousing in the Real World goes way beyond modeling and talks about ETL, partitioning, aggregates and other issues in great detail. Recommend it.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good starting for project managers
The book covers all aspects of the DWH from extraction to designing star scheme (could have more detailled example -> see ralph kimballs book) to data marting. Very useful for newcomers (like myself) to set up a project and know what to do and what not to do. Estimates are nice, but be careful about them...
Rating: 1 out of 5
For managers only.
This book is useful only to complete newcomers to data warehousing, particularly managers, although I consider Rob Mattison's or Vidette Poe's books to be better for the latter group. There is little substantive for the hands-on practitioner who has to build a real data warehouse. In fact, this book has very little to say about data warehouses at all - most of the book is generic project management stuff. If you need hard-core information about the design of a real data warehouse, try Ralph Kimball's or Erik Thomsen's books
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