Customer Review: Love this book. Written mostly in plain English (for those of us who are not techies).. it also provides sections were it deciphers technical acronyms and concepts.
Customer Review: This is an excellent book and a must have for any serious data warehouse architect. I use it extensively as a reference and also recommend it to my clients trying to learn data warehousing. The first three chapters are great for beginners. The remaining chapters go into more detail, which live up to... more info
Customer Review: I bought this book for a class. It is very complete. I am an IT person who need this sense of Business Size of BI while I am updating my SQL Server skills. I recommend this book.
Customer Review: In my estimation The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit is a good source of information for the topic that covers the majority of your Data Warehouse efforts, the ETL process (or ECCD if you prefer, which you probably will after finishing this volume). I took away some good ideas on items that I probably... more info
Customer Review: I got the book in very bad shape. I was promised that the book is like new. When I got it, the back cover page was half ripped. The book has lot of spots. Seller is not even responding to my emails.
Customer Review: Data warehosuing is a difficult subject to grasp. There are many disciplines that have to come together to make data warehousing work : database design, business understanding, management expertise, data mining, creating reports, project management, OLAP and more.
Customer Review: No, the book is not by the Doctor R. Kimball played by Harrison Ford in "The Fugitive" (although this R. Kimball is making out like a bandit with his Data Warehouse series.) This primary goal of this book is to cash in on the outrageous amounts of money poured into the web during the dot com bubble.... more info