The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; About the Authors; Credits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introducing the Kimball Lifecycle; Chapter 2: Launching and Managing the Project/Program; Chapter 3: Collecting the Requirements; Chapter 4: Introducing the Technical Architecture; Chapter 5: Creating the Architecture Plan and Selecting Products; Chapter 6: Introducing Dimensional Modeling; Chapter 7: Designing the Dimensional Model; Chapter 8: Designing the Physical Database and Planning for Performance; Chapter 9: Introducing Extract, Transformation, and Load.;A thorough update to the industry standard for designing, developing, and deploying data warehouse and business intelligence systemsThe world of data warehousing has changed remarkably since the first edition of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit was published in 1998. In that time, the data warehouse industry has reached full maturity and acceptance, hardware and software have made staggering advances, and the techniques promoted[...]in the premiere edition of this book have been adopted by nearly all data warehouse vendors and practitioners. In addition, the term "business intelligence" emerge.