The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit (eBook)

Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data

Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | 1. Auflage
528 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-07968-3 (ISBN)

Infos

* Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading data
warehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than
150,000 copies

* Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- and
labor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or the
extract, transform, load (ETL) process

* Delineates best practices for extracting data from scattered
sources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming the
remaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and then
loading the end product into the data warehouse

* Offers proven time-saving ETL techniques, comprehensive
guidance on building dimensional structures, and crucial advice on
ensuring data quality

Autor

RALPH KIMBALL, PhD, founder of the Kimball Group, has been a leading visionary in the data warehousing industry since 1982 and is one of today's best-known speakers and educators. He is the author of several bestselling titles published on data warehousing, including The Data Warehouse Toolkit (Wiley). JOE CASERTA is the founder of Caserta Concepts, LLC, a data warehousing consulting firm. He writes frequently for print and online magazines, and is an active contributor to DWList, the major online community for data warehousing professionals.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

Part I: Requirements, Realities, and Architecture.

Chapter 1: Surrounding the Requirements.

Chapter 2: ETL Data Structures.

Part II: Data Flow.

Chapter 3: Extracting.

Chapter 4: Cleaning and Conforming.

Chapter 5: Delivering Dimension Tables.

Chapter 6: Delivering Fact Tables.

Part III: Implementation and operations.

Chapter 7: Development.

Chapter 8: Operations.

Chapter 9: Metadata.

Chapter 10: Responsibilities.

Part IV: Real Time Streaming ETL Systems.

Chapter 11: Real-Time ETL Systems.

Chapter 12: Conclusions.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• Schlagworte: Computer Science • Database & Data Warehousing Technologies • Data-warehouse-Konzept • Datenbanken u. Data Warehousing • Informatik
• ISBN-10: 1-118-07968-X / 111807968X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-07968-3 / 9781118079683