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In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse
Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective
and usable data warehouses. In The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit,
Ralph joins with Laura Reeves, Margy Ross and Warren Thornthwaite to address the larger
issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their
experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, Ralph and his coauthors show you
all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and
growing data warehouses. Important topics include:
- The Business Dimensional Lifecycle™ approach to data warehouse project planning and
management
- Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently
- Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules
- The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into
super-flexible data warehouses
- Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging
- A framework for creating your technical architecture
- Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance
- Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques
The CD-ROM supplies you with:
- Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities
- A set of sample data models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture
- All of the templates described in the book
- Checklists to use at key points in the project
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