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The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses
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Author: Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite
List Price: $65.00
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ISBN: 0471255475
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (13 August, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 9,190
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
The definitive guide to DW Project Management!
You won't find anything better on DW Project Management.
Covers everything from introduction to the subject, essential concepts through to recommended and proven industrial practices with checklists. You MUST read this book from cover to cover before attempting to start a DW project. It could make the difference between project success and failure.If you are going to be involved in implementing a DW rather than only managing the project then it's definitely worth getting one of Kimball's other books (DW Toolkit/Data Webhouse Toolkit), which cover lower level aspects of designing and implementing a DW, although there is some overlap.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Very good, but not a one-stop shop for Data Modellers
PROS
- Offers invaluable advice based on the authors' experience so that you don't need to re-invent the wheel or make the same mistakes they made (and subsequently learned from).
- Most useful for Project Managers/DBAs; less so for Data Modellers.CONS
- I purchased this book on the assumption that it offered a comprehensive treatment of all stages of the Data Warehouse project lifecycle (as the cover would lead you to believe). However, it does not offer a comprehensive treatment of Dimensional Modelling. For this, the book actually assumes you have read Kimball's former book - "The Data Warehouse Toolkit - The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling" (which provides a full treatment and practical examples for several industry sectors).
- I did not like the writing-style. If the authors would have omitted all text like "we believe.." and "in our experience..." I'm sure the book wouldn't have used 800 pages. CONCLUSION
This book has remained by my side throughout the project lifecycle, giving great guidance and pointers to help manage the project optimally.
However, if you are responsible for Data Modelling, you will also need to buy "The Data Warehouse Toolkit", thereby doubling the overall cost.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Too much of nothing
I found the book too big with too much of useless text. You will go through pages and pages wondering where is the
substance? The CD attached to the book is of no value.
The same author has a much better book ('The Data Warehouse Toolkit"), which has no CD but a lot fewer pages and
much more substance.
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