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| View Larger Image | Building the Data Warehouse
by W. H. Inmon
| | List Price: | $55.00 | | Price: | $49.50 | | You Save: | $5.50 (10%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 32297 | | Studio: | Wiley | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 576 | | Publication Date: | October 07, 2005 | | Publisher: | Wiley |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
- The new edition of the classic bestseller that launched the data warehousing industry covers new approaches and technologies, many of which have been pioneered by Inmon himself
- In addition to explaining the fundamentals of data warehouse systems, the book covers new topics such as methods for handling unstructured data in a data warehouse and storing data across multiple storage media
- Discusses the pros and cons of relational versus multidimensional design and how to measure return on investment in planning data warehouse projects
- Covers advanced topics, including data monitoring and testing
- Although the book includes an extra 100 pages worth of valuable content, the price has actually been reduced from $65 to $55
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 23 reviews)
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Good and Bad 
This book is a good introduction to data warehousing. However, the style is remarkably bad. It is very repetitious, poorly organized overall, occasionally self-contradictory, and jam-packed with cartoon-like line drawings that seldom add clarity to the discussion. The book easily could be reduced from 500 pages to 200 pages without losing any information, and with an improvement in readability.
September 12, 2007 | |
BI for smarties 
In my opinion Kimball vs Inmon is not a war of religion, they both have pro and cons in different situation. I believe people seriously interested in BI should read the book and take several advices from it. There are situation in which an Inmon design is good, there are some in which it isn't BUT to be able to judge you need to know both an be able to decide based on the customer's necessity.
The pictures in the book are really ugly and useless, nevertheless the concepts are clearly stated and easily understandable. If I have to say something wrong about it is that you need to already know what a BI system is in order to get the most out of the book. It is not for newcomers but it is definetely a good book on BI.
August 23, 2007 | |
Review of Data Warehouse Tools 
Received in a timely manner, in good condition, and it is very useful. Thx.
November 02, 2006 | |
The (im)practical approach to DW design 
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.
August 28, 2005 | |
Everything you wanted to know about building a Data Warehouse
An extremely well written book that not only is wide in scope but also tells the story - shows how and why the data warehouse evolved. The author details the subject thoroughly, points out the pitfalls, explains the proper methodology for success. The illustrations are terrific! This is a must have for anyone involved in Data Warehousing projects.
August 02, 2005 | |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| | The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition)
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
| | The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin
by Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta
| | The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses
by Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite
| | Mastering Data Warehouse Design: Relational and Dimensional Techniques
by Claudia Imhoff, Nicholas Galemmo, Jonathan G. Geiger
| | The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite, Joy Mundy, Bob Becker
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