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The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data

Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta

ISBN: 978-0-7645-6757-5

528 pages September 2004 Read an Excerpt

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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

Table of Contents Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

Part I: Requirements, Realities, and Architecture.

Chapter 1: Surrounding the Requirements.

Chapter 2: ETL Data Structures. See More

Author Information

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 rm. He writes frequently for print and online magazines, and is an active contributor to DWList, the major online community for data warehousing professionals.

Notes Author's companion site View the author's web site at www.kimballuniversity.com. View these other titles by Ralph Kimball View these other titles by Ralph Kimball: The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit: Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to , 2nd Edition

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Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit Classics: The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition; The Data Warehouse Lifecycle, 2nd Edition; The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Bob Becker, Joy Mundy, Warren Thornthwaite

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