Data Warehousing For Dummies 2nd Edition

This was my first book about Data Warehousing. As a book in the Dummies series from Wiley it more than lived up to my expectations.You will get introduced to the nuts and bolts of the Data Warehouse-concept, and a strategy from decision to implementation and maintenance.The book will introduce you to several DW-vendors, but does not go into a specific vendors products.After this book I read Business Intelligence for Dummies, and I was afraid there would be a lot of overlap between the two, but I was happily surprised that wasn't the case. I can recommend both of them for anyone who is looking for a fast-track introduction to DW and BI.As other reviewers has pointed out, this book isn't the end of the line, but we already knew that. If you start from scratch you will have plenty of information to keep and reading other books, getting your feet wet. If you start from zero (or even beyond that) I can promise you'll find lot of interesting information in this book.

This is an excellent book for people who are new to data warehousing and just need an overview.

Great Book on Data Warehousing concepts. I am only half way through the book, but I do not see any actual examples or samples on setting something up. My mistake for not investigating the book throughly. Great book for the concepts though.

Don't recall buying this.

Such a great book for one who just needs infrastructure and history to be able to effectively work with the IT folks.

Look, this look isn't for experienced DW people. However, it wouldn't hurt some of the DW "experts" I know to read it.The author gived down to earth comments and examples of what the industry entails and what DW is all about. He covers most of the issues and gave me some interesting insight into some areas that I haven't yet delt with.I've been working in DW for over 5 years. Even so, I think this book is worth reading. I'm gald I did.

The book provides a useful introduction to Data warehousing. It is well written, easy to follow and a handy reference.

I knew nothing about it but now I do thanks to this simple book on the subject and well laid out to get a good overview and now I could easily get involved and learn more knowing the basics.