In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. No... » 

In his bestselling book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses. Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses. Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses.

Important topics include:The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and managementTechniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficientlyAdvanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rulesThe Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehousesA framework for creating your technical architectureTechniques for minimizing the risks involved with data stagingAggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performanceCutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques

The CD-ROM supplies you with:Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilitiesA set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus ArchitectureBlank versions of the templates and tools described in the bookChecklists to use at key points in the project «