Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server (Expert's Voice) Review

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Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server (Expert's Voice) ReviewA very hands-on book about implementing a Data Warehouse using Microsoft SQL Serveer 2005. In fact, it is a bit too hands-on in the sense that it guides you through all clicks and keystrokes but is rather thin and vague on general design principles.
The author has set out to write "a book containing all the essential subjects of building a data warehouse" (quote from the introduction). However, given the breadth of the material the author tries to cover (and given the sometimes annoyingly plentiful screenshots and SQL code) there is not enough room to give the necessary background and generalize the examples enough to be more useful than just that, examples.
For a much better attempt to cover both principles and a specific platform, a much better choice is The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit (by Joy Mundy and Warren Thornthwaite), also covering SQL Server 2005.
For someone looking for just the practical part on how to use the Microsoft tools (SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS) to implement a Data Warehouse and already knows the general principles of data warehousing is probably better off buying a book or several books that cover just those specific tools.
Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server (Expert's Voice) OverviewThe book is intended to contain practical explanations of essential topics in implementing a data warehouse that everybody who wishes to embark on a data warehousing journey will need to understand in order to build their first data warehouse. Not only that, but they get the SQL Server code so that they can go ahead and implement the data warehouse, create reports, utilize business intelligence, CRM, and more. Essentially, it is a field guide for data warehousing implementation.

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