Data Warehouse Design Solutions [With *]

This book provides down-to-earth models for star schemas. And with each example, the authors examines different approaches for designing the stars and later gives the pros/cons of each approach. A very good book. A must for anyone who designs data warehouse databases.

This book from 1st page onwards talks about Data Modeling issues for Datawarehouse in a mature way. Also covers an important issue of integration of datamarts.

A great book full of relevance if you are implementing a data warehouse. It blends technical and business issues perfectly and provide advanced analysis of sophisticated applications

What is great about this book is that it discusses design issues in the context of real and common business problems that data warehouses address. Most authors on data warehousing make abstract assertions about the strengths of data warehousing. This intelligent book gives the reader the material to make up his own mind as to what benefits data warehousing brings to a business.

The authors have written a stunning example of how to make complex issues simple for both newcomers and the experienced.If you have no idea of what the problems are in a product or service fulfillment business or any other of a variety of industries, you can look them up here and get an overview of the problems and a simple design of a star schema that can help resolve the issues.Invaluable for both IT types, Business Analysts and Consultants who want to get beyond the theory and into the real world.Follows Kimball's teachings closely which makes the content even more valuable for those who use "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" as their bible.