The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit,   ISBN:9780470149775

Customer Rating: 

A great read with valuable nuggets littered across every chapter. Years of experience have been laid out in the book. The 2nd edition is much better than its predecessor. Every topic has adequate space allocated to it. One should not expect an extensive review of dimensional modeling techniques in this book even-though, the authors have explained the topic very well. For a more detailed review with examples, you should purchase the toolkit on dimensional modeling. The same applies to designing the ETL sub-system.

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What I found compelling about this book is that it teaches you the lingo of the data warehouse. Just what is a fact or a dimension and why would you call it that and how would you make those.

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The publisher didn't include active links in the Kindle version. With fiction books that isn't much of an issue, since a reader generally reads from start to finish. However, many readers use technical books as reference, only skipping to chapters and sections which address specific topics.

Amazon support tells me that publishers are requested, but not required, to include active links in books they submit. With the volume of books they receive they can't check to assure that active links have been included.

It took me an hour to navigate to the chapter I was interested in. (I could have just paged through to chapter 3, but I kept trying to use the five-way navigation controller to get there. I didn't know at first that Amazon would sell Kindle books without active links.)

I've suggested that Amazon require publishers to indicate whether or not they have included active links, so readers can decide whether they want to buy a Kindle book with hobbled functionality. Until then, I would encourage the first buyer of a book without active links to post a review to that effect so other readers can decide whether or not to purchase a book that will be difficult to navigate.

Amazon was very prompt at refunding the purchase price of the Kindle book (after my initial customer service request, which was apparently a bit too vague for them to understand.) Still, I'd like to see them do more to assure that the products they sell are useful and not just anything the publisher shovels to them.

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Love this book. Written mostly in plain English (for those of us who are not techies).. it also provides sections were it deciphers technical acronyms and concepts.

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This book is really very good. If you have big experience with DW/BI projects, or even you are a beginner, it shows you all steps to create a sucessuful project.