Data Warehousing Books
There are literally hundreds of Data Warehousing books on the market
today. Each has it's positive and negative points. However, we couldn't
possibly list all the excellent books on this page. We can, however, draw on our collective experience of working in this industry to draw up our list of Top Data Warehousing Books list. In no particular order, these are:
The Data Warehouse Toolkit:
The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition)
by Ralph Kimball
An
excellent reference guide, particularly more so as scenarios are played
out in various contexts - retail, insurance, etc. I have used this book
several times and have found it incredibly useful. No surprise that we
see this book on the many IT desks.
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, and Joy Mundy
An excellent book written by Kimball et. al. Ideally suited to those that need to plan and manage a data warehouse project.
Mastering Data Warehouse Design:
Relational and Dimensional Techniques
by Claudia Imhoff, Nicholas Galemmo, and Jonathan G. Geiger
This
book provides a thorough grounding in Data Warehouse design. Slightly
different principles to the Kimball design, but useful nonetheless.
Building the Data Warehouse
by W.H. Inmon
The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit
by Ralph Kimball
Mastering Data Warehouse Aggregates
by Christopher Adamson
Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model
by Paul Westerman
This
is an interesting book written by one of the architects of the Wal-Mart
Data Warehouse. He describes his initial design and it’s subsequent
phenomenal growth. A real eye opener and a useful guide in implementing
warehouses.
Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse: Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver
by Kevin McDonald, Andreas Wilmsmeier, David C. Dixon, W. H. Inmon
SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting:
Building Better BI with SAP® BI 7.0
by Peter Jones
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