The Kimball Group Reader: Relentlessly Practical Tools for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Remastered Collection

The last word from the world experts in Dimensional Modeling. For over three decades these people helped hundreds of organizations pull data from multiple transactional systems into a centralized analytical platform. This book summarizes the wisdom gained from that experience. It ends with some speculation about where the world of Data Warehouses may go next. While there is a lot of technical content in this book, by far the most important information in my opinion is about organizational issues: at all costs one must resist the temptation to start coding too soon. Before coding, all stakeholders need to reach agreement on how every fact and dimension table will be defined. Different departments will have their own definitions of similar fields in their databases, and these must be harmonized.The owner of each data source and the owners of the data warehouse need to agree on who does which part of the ETL process, how, and on what schedule. And so forth. One chapter lists 38 specific questions that absolutely need to be answered before building a data warehouse; in the authors' experience skipping any of these questions ALWAYS costs more in the long run than answering that question at the outset.

Best book on data warehousing ever written. Kimball and his team explain complex topics in plain language, and they always support their methods & designs with practical experience and lots of considered thought. A must read for anyone in BI/DW.

Ce dernier ouvrage du Dr Kimball doit absolument faire partie de nos littératures de référence, il complète la librairie de ses littératures.Une façon de remercier et honorer la générosité de Mr Kimball à nous transmettre savoir, trucs et astuces, pièges à éviter de manière très exhaustive. Merci Docteur Kimball. (en 25 ans de consulting B.I. DWH - à chaque projet je retourne à la littérature)

"One book to rule them all, one book to bring them all and in the Dev environment bind them,to forge the Data Warehouse, where the surrogate keys lie"Another excellent book from the group, I've bought my copy and use it

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