Data Warehouse Method, The

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Summary: Brings together traditional DW methods and OO Concepts well
Review: A recurring theme in this book is Discipline, Quality, and Team. There is more to leading a successful data warehousing project than understanding the technical terminology - although that is covered here as well. What this book brought out to me was data warehousing as a whole - why its necessary, how to plan for it, Return On Investment, and design/collaboration considerations for the management team as well as technical design, detailed implementation and support for the development team. I bought a copy for my technical lead too. I recommend it.

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Summary: Great management resource
Review: A recurring theme in this book is Discipline, Quality, and Team. There is more to leading a successful data warehousing project than understanding the technical terminology - although that is covered here as well. What this book brought out to me was data warehousing as a whole - why its necessary, how to plan for it, Return On Investment, and design/collaboration considerations for the management team as well as technical design, detailed implementation and support for the development team. I bought a copy for my technical lead too. I recommend it.

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Summary: Brings together traditional DW methods and OO Concepts well
Review: Not a book for the beginner in either arena, this is an in-depth treatment of OO and UML concepts applied to the Data Warehouse methodology. Highly recommended, especially if you are strong in system design and development, but relatively new to formality in data warehouse methodology. This is a good companion book to The Lifecycle Toolkit, by Ralph Kimball.

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Summary: Not For ME!
Review: Sorry folks -- this book just didn't work for me. I'm pretty technically savvy (BSEE, MCSD), but I just couldn't get much out of this tome. The language is stunningly obscure to me (read the authors' notes above, then imagine if they got "scholarly"), and the meat just wasn't there for me and my little three-person warehousing project. Adding to the difficulty -- there must be at least one typo per paragraph, which I find extremely distracting. This is the only book I've ever sent back.

Rating:
Summary: Not For ME!
Review: Sorry folks -- this book just didn't work for me. I'm pretty technically savvy (BSEE, MCSD), but I just couldn't get much out of this tome. The language is stunningly obscure to me (read the authors' notes above, then imagine if they got "scholarly"), and the meat just wasn't there for me and my little three-person warehousing project. Adding to the difficulty -- there must be at least one typo per paragraph, which I find extremely distracting. This is the only book I've ever sent back.