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Summary: An Excellent Source for Facts /Dimensions
Review: Very rarely you come across books which you read from page 1 , to all the way to the endI found this book an excellent reference material
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Summary: This book makes building a Data Warehouse Possible!
Review: We were at a lose on how to proceed with putting together an historical database that would track 10,000 discrete survey items from over 800 surveys per year, including survey indications, and official estimates. The real problem was doing it such a way as to make it easy to use, understandable, and accessible to all of our data analysts. We read Inmon's book and decided it would be too complicated and slow if we used his approach. Besides, we wanted true ad-hoc capabilities, and did not want to be hampered by a system that had too little data, or was being controled by someone trying to save nickles on DASD by spending dollars of our time. Kimball's book gave us what we were looking for: a way to build a data warehouse incrementally, using and tracking the lowest level of granularity in our data, and offering simplicity and service without an army of IT consultants. His engineering approach to dimensional modeling, particularly his notion of conforming dimensions puts the traditionalists, like Inmon, out to pasture.
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Summary: Very good introduction to data-warehouse modeling
Review: you will get a very good introduction to data-warehouse modeling, you will need some basic SQL-knowledge and a little bit patience during reading (the book could be a little bit shorter)
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Summary: The definitive guide to DW Project Management!
Review: You won't find anything better on DW Project Management.
Covers everything from introduction to the subject, essential concepts through to recommended and proven industrial practices with checklists. You MUST read this book from cover to cover before attempting to start a DW project. It could make the difference between project success and failure. If you are going to be involved in implementing a DW rather than only managing the project then it's definitely worth getting one of Kimball's other books (DW Toolkit/Data Webhouse Toolkit), which cover lower level aspects of designing and implementing a DW, although there is some overlap.
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