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The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin
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by Ralph Kimball and Joe Caserta
Sales Rank: 17466
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List Price: $45.00
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition September 13, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764567578
ISBN-13: 978-0764567575
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Customer Reviews & Comments
A survival guide and a must have for every data warehouse architect. This book is written for architects - not for ETL developers. Written from the 10,000 foot level, many of the architectures and designs are `nice to haves' and would require tremendous commitments in resources to be implemented and thus may be too lofty for many organizations. HOWEVER, it is best to have a theoretical bulls-eye, a target to shoot for, and try to make small baby steps towards implementing the optimal solution, then not have a hypothetical utopia at all to strive for. Looking for a comparison of ETL tools and which ones do what best? You will not find this here. A great resource for DW Architects who may have many years of experience working on data warehouse projects but may have not had the opportunity of implementing some more elaborative meta data driven cleaning and conforming schemas - a truly interesting approach yet I'm not sure Ralph Kimball's design with the `survivorship support metadata' schema, could perform fast enough for some of the large data warehouse loading needs of larger organizations. Separating critical issues from insignificant ones is difficult from the reading, however, the framework and methodical approach to the steps of Extract =
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The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin
List Price: $45.00
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Price: $38.40
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