Kimball's Data Warehouse Toolkit Classics

Three books that set the standard with their groundbreaking methods and techniques for data warehousing.

This set includes the following books fro... » 

Three books that set the standard with their groundbreaking methods and techniques for data warehousing.

This set includes the following books from the Kimball Group: The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Second Edition
This authoritative guide presents clear-cut guidelines for designing dimensional models through the use of real-world data warehouse case studies drawn from a variety of business application areas and industries. Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross help you master the full range of powerful techniques for designing dimensional databases that are easy to understand and provide fast query responses. The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, Second Edition
With this second edition, Ralph Kimball and his Kimball Group colleagues refined the original set of Lifecycle methods and techniques based on their consulting and training experiences. They walk you through detailed steps of designing, developing, and deploying a data warehousing/business intelligence system, from business requirements gathering through delivery, with the steadfast goal of enabling users to make better, more informed business decisions. The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit
Serving as a road map for planning, designing, building, and running the backroom of a data warehouse, this book provides complete coverage of proven, time-saving ETL techniques. You'll discover how a properly designed ETL system extracts data from the source systems, enforces data quality and consistency standards, conforms the data so that separate sources can be used together, and finally delivers the data in a presentation-ready format «