The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniquesfor Building Dimensional Data Warehouses
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RALPH KIMBALL currently designs large data warehouses for a living, in addition to teaching and consulting. He also writes the Data Warehouse Architect column for DBMS magazine and was co-inventor of the Xerox Star workstation, the first commercial product to use mice, icons, and windows. Dr. Kimball was vice president of applications at Metaphor Computer Systems, and founder and CEO of Red Brick Systems. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Two Different Worlds.
The Grocery Store.
The Warehouse.
Shipments: The Most Powerful Database.
The Value Chain.
The Big Dimensions.
Financial Services, Especially Banks.
Subscription Businesses.
Insurance.
Factless Fact Tables.
Voyage Businesses.
Building a Dimensional Data Warehouse.
Aggregates.
The Back Room.
The Front Room.
Front End Applications.
The Future.
Appendices.
Index.
The Grocery Store.
The Warehouse.
Shipments: The Most Powerful Database.
The Value Chain.
The Big Dimensions.
Financial Services, Especially Banks.
Subscription Businesses.
Insurance.
Factless Fact Tables.
Voyage Businesses.
Building a Dimensional Data Warehouse.
Aggregates.
The Back Room.
The Front Room.
Front End Applications.
The Future.
Appendices.
Index.
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"Ralph Kimball provides clear-cut guidelines on how to model data and design data warehouses to support advanced multidimensional decision support systems. With Kimball's step-by-step instructions, readers will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for creating, controlling and navigating dimensional business databases that are easy to understand and navigate." (Fatbrain.com; Ganthead.com, 9/01)
