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Summary: Good Perspectives on Tough Topics
Review: I enjoyed this book. We all hear about tough issues, but this book goes further and offers insightful opinions and sound advice. The format of the book makes it very easy to read. It's an interesting peek into the tough little realities that lurk inside data warehousing projects.
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Summary: Exceeded my expectations!
Review: I love the format. This format is very powerful because I can go right to the problems that are relavent to my company and review the suggested solutions. The suggested solutions are based on a lot of experience in the Data Warehouse field from a number of experts, not just one person. You can glean many good ideas from this book.I have found this Sid Adelman book to be just as useful as his first book,"Data Warehouse Project Management", written with Lorissa Moss.
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Summary: Exceeded my expectations!
Review: I love the format. This format is very powerful because I can go right to the problems that are relavent to my company and review the suggested solutions. The suggested solutions are based on a lot of experience in the Data Warehouse field from a number of experts, not just one person. You can glean many good ideas from this book. I have found this Sid Adelman book to be just as useful as his first book,"Data Warehouse Project Management", written with Lorissa Moss.
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Summary: 91 data warehouse situations
Review: More than anything this book helps you realize that you are not alone in your problems. I recognized (too) many problems in our warehouse project and the advice offered was helpful. The book is evenly divided into "impossible management situations" and "impossible technical situations". Ninety-one problems are presented, with common themes including tension between operational data and the warehouse, lack of clear business sponsor and clear requirements, use of consultants, lack of sharing of data and stovepipes, and quality issues in both the warehouse and the source operational data. Each problem is asked of the nine experts and the answers have a lot of redundancy, and occasionally interesting disagreements. In some cases I would have preferred the editor either integrating the answers or allowing a dialogue between the experts. This book does not present an introduction to data warehousing, and is most geared toward the data warehouse project manager.
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