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Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 4th Edition edition (11 Oct 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0764599445
ISBN-13: 978-0764599446
Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.8 x 3.2 cm

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"...a clear and well thought out text I would recommend it to anyone working in data management or considering setting up a data warehouse..." (Managing Information, 9 October 2002)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Specialists only need apply, 25 Jul 2000

By	Martin Willcox (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Inmon is often referred to as "the father of the Data Warehouse." He has been instrumental in developing the whole Data Warehousing concept, remains intimately involved with the development of many innovative MIS products and services and is an inspiring speaker.

All of which makes this text book something of a disappointment.

Inmon's writing style is long-winded rather than concise, his (numerous) diagrams are confusing rather than illuminating and this book just doesn't work in the way that better texts on the subject do (The Data Warehouse Toolkit - Kimball, Data Warehousing in the Real World - Anahory & Murray, etc., etc.).

If you specialise in Data Warehousing, or are a student writing a thesis or paper on the subject, then Inmon is worth reading, if only to understand the historical drivers for the development of dedicated, consolidated MI systems and to get the perspective of someone who was there from the start. But if you specialise in Data Warehousing you've probably already read this book and there are much better books out there for the rest of you who are just getting started.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The (im)practical approach to DW design, 28 Dec 2007

By	Andrea Vincenzi (Arezzo, Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you work for a large corporation which has millions of $ to spend on DW projects, maybe you should look at this book and even consider some of the ideas that it contains.
But if you need to develop a data warehouse using limited resources and within a certain timeframe, your time will better used reading other books, because following the Inmon approach will lead you to an unnecessary complicated and expensive design.
I found that the arguments used by Inmon to demonstrate the limits of the dimensional approach are not convincing at all. For example, at page 142 he says "Because there is a different data structure for each data mart, making any data mart into a data warehouse doesn't make sense."
Having personally implemented several data warehouses using the "conformed dimensions" approach, I can guarantee that it worked and produced a very elegant and clean data model.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Useless and time wasting, 21 Jun 1999

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Never in my life did I spend so much time in reading such a useless book. The whole thing message could have been written on a pin head. J suggest the authors to have a look at the Kimball books.

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