The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit

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

Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

528 Seiten

2004
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7645-6757-5 (ISBN)

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This text provides solutions to the most labour and time intensive part of data warehouse development.

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

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2004
Zusatzinfo	Drawings: 96 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 7 B&W, 0 Color
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
ISBN-10	0-7645-6757-8 / 0764567578
ISBN-13	978-0-7645-6757-5 / 9780764567575
Zustand	Neuware