- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (20 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201175193
- ISBN-13: 978-0201175196
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.9 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 942,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Data warehouses are the primary means by which businesses can gain competitive advantage through analyzing and using the information stored in their computerized systems. However, the data warehousing market is inundated with confusing, often contradictory, technical information from suppliers of hardware, databases and tools. Data Warehousing in the Real World provides comprehensive guidelines and techniques for the delivery of decision support solutions using open-systems data warehouses. Written by practitioners for practitioners, Data Warehousing in the Real World describes each stage of the implementation process in detail: from project planning and requirements analysis, through architecture and design to administrative issues such as user access, security, backup and recovery.
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Data Warehouses are the primary means by which businesses can gain competitive advantage through analysing and using the information stored in their computerised systems. However, the Data Warehousing market is inundated with confusing, often contradictory, technical information from suppliers of hardware, databases and tools. Data Warehousing in the Real World provides comprehensive guidelines and techniques for the delivery of decision support solutions using open-systems Data Warehouses.Written by practitioners for practitioners Data Warehousing in the Real World describes each stage of the implementation process in detail: from project planning and requirements analysis, through architecture and design to administrative issues such as user access, security, back-up and recovery.Read this book to:· Learn the fundamentals of designing large-scale Data Warehouses using relational technology· Take advantage of product-independent comprehensive guidelines which cover all the issues you need to take into account when planning and building a Data Warehouse· Benefit from the authors’ experience distilled into helpful hints and tips· Apply to your own situation with examples of real-life solutions taken from a variety of different business sectors· Make use of the templates for project-plans, system architectures and database designs provided in the appendixAbout the Authors:Sam Anahory is Director for Systems Integration at SHL Systemhouse (UK) where he runs their Data Warehousing practice, delivering Data Warehousing solutions to clients and managing the systems integration required. Prior to this, he built up and ran the Data Warehousing Practice for Oracle Corporation (UK).Dennis Murray is a Principal consultant with Oracle Corporation (UK). While through being the Technical Architect for many Data Warehousing solutions, he has accumulated a vast amount of experience on a wide range of hardware platforms.Together they have collaborated on developing and giving training courses, workshops and presentations on the business and technical issues associated with delivering a Data Warehouse.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am a big fan of this book and surprised to see that it has garnered such negative reviews elsewhere.
Anyone who trashes a book because it fails to tell them everything they wanted to know about a subject is, in my opinion, living in cloud cuckoo land. I never read a book that answered every question I had on a particular subject to my complete satisfaction - you only get anything like a complete picture by reading around a subject.
Anahory and Murray is a good, clear and readable introduction to the subject of Data Warehousing. It is beautifully presented, neatly laid-out and easy to navigate. There are more authoritative accounts available on, for example, Dimensional Modelling (Kimball) and Data Cleansing (Devlin) - but that's not the point of an introductory text to a broad and complex subject, is it?
Required reading for new joiners to my team and a good start point for many of you, too.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is useful only to complete newcomers to data warehousing, particularly managers, although I consider Rob Mattison's or Vidette Poe's books to be better for the latter group. There is little substantive for the hands-on practitioner who has to build a real data warehouse. In fact, this book has very little to say about data warehouses at all - most of the book is generic project management stuff. If you need hard-core information about the design of a real data warehouse, try Ralph Kimball's or Erik Thomsen's books.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Good and Practical
28 Nov 2001
Format:Hardcover
Purchased Kimbal's book and this one. Found Data Warehousing in the Real World to be good at, not only demonstrating the conceptual pieces of a data warehouse, but also the integral technical and developmental aspects of data warehouse design. Kimbal's book drones on and on about this and that (business) senario, but is only useful if you are modeling that specific senario (and doesn't explain it very well either). Data Warehousing in the Real World goes way beyond modeling and talks about ETL, partitioning, aggregates and other issues in great detail. Recommend it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
For managers only.
15 Aug 1997
Format:Hardcover
This book is useful only to complete newcomers to data warehousing, particularly managers, although I consider Rob Mattison's or Vidette Poe's books to be better for the latter group. There is little substantive for the hands-on practitioner who has to build a real data warehouse. In fact, this book has very little to say about data warehouses at all - most of the book is generic project management stuff. If you need hard-core information about the design of a real data warehouse, try Ralph Kimball's or Erik Thomsen's books
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Good starting for project managers
24 July 1998
Format:Hardcover
The book covers all aspects of the DWH from extraction to designing star scheme (could have more detailled example -> see ralph kimballs book) to data marting. Very useful for newcomers (like myself) to set up a project and know what to do and what not to do. Estimates are nice, but be careful about them...
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