THE DATA WAREHOUSE ETL TOOLKIT

Market_Desc: · Data Warehouse Developers and Administrators Special Features: · Ralph Kimball, the author of this book, is far-and-away the best-selling author on data warehousing· His new book covers the most difficult, time-consuming, and labor-intensive phase of building a data warehouse; this is essential information that data warehouse developers and managers need to know· Kimball can be expected to actively promote this book through his column in Intelligent Enterprise magazine, through classes offered by his training organization, Kimball University, and online About The Book: The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit shows data warehouse developers how to effectively manage the ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) phase of the data warehouse development lifecycle. The authors show developers the best methods for extracting data from scattered sources throughout the enterprise, removing obsolete, redundant, and inaccurate data, transforming the remaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and then physically loading them into the data warehouse.