Sunday 15 January 2012

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

The proposed rules for the data warehouse and business intelligence, and a unique collection of Ralph Kimball Group colleagues developed by the team.

The leaders of industry data storage, known as the most effective and respected throughout the world, Ralph Kimball and Kimball Group to define the area of ? Data storage 250 that contains the articles written on the subject. For the first time, the board Kimball Group's unique design tips and best practices, covering a decade of innovation in data storage, articles collected in this extraordinary collection.

Kimball is a global life-cycle methodology developed by the original with comments explaining the roles of each group of items offered. This practical, hands-product fully reflects current practices and terminology planning and project requirements gathering, dimensional modeling, ETL and business intelligence and analysis, including updates for cover the entire life cycle.

In any capacity, whether or not related to data storage and business intelligence is nothing more important for the easy reference of this collection.

Detailed data and storage practices and business intelligence, most authoritative guides to the collection

Over the past 15 years, Ralph Kimball and his team, his friends a unique data warehouse (DW) in the field have come to define the topic with more than 250 articles I wrote. Kimball, group thinking and practices to reflect the reader, most of these articles have completely updated. Project planning, requirements gathering, dimensional modeling, ETL and Business Intelligence (BI) and analysis, including full life cycle, the lining, the authors go beyond Toolkit extends the detailed requirements and provide technical advice to new ideas and best practices.

Ideas drive data storage and the principles established by a group of articles begin. The following content is available for your own projects, with a deep and practical guide gives detailed information on each stage of the life cycle of data storage. After the project, including needs and business planning, the authors, while taking a bath in three dimensions. Articles in over 100 one-dimensional modeling. These items are fully revised and updated as necessary to reflect best practices established by the Kimball Group, has been extended.

Design, implementation, and the reader is Kimball Group DW / BI, recommended to protect the critical success with unique items

  • Dos and don'ts for collecting requirements
  • Kimball, enterprise data storage and matrix architecture
  • Duties and Responsibilities dimensional modeling
  • In fact, the basic concepts of the table and dimension table
  • Sizes of data management are not appropriate
  • Granularity, and indeed the three basic types of table
  • Snowflakes and stabilizers
  • Value and characteristics of multiple hierarchies of unequal size, data transfer and bridges
  • Customer size and scope Shadow of internationalization
  • Slow development and size of the hybrids
  • Subsystems (ETL), Extract Transform and Load
  • Advantages and disadvantages of using a commercial ETL tool
  • Focused analytics server architecture, data management, and packaged
  • Forequarter BI applications and data mining
  • Techniques mature DW / BW environment, evaluation, and return to the road

About the Author

Ralph Kimball, Ph.D., founder of Kimball and a visionary leader in data storage industry.

Kimball, Margy Ross, group president since 1982 and only the solutions DW / BI focused on.

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