TY - BOOK AU - Kimball, Ralph AU - Ross, Margy TI - The Data warehouse toolkit: the definitive guide to dimensional modeling / SN - 9781118530801 AV - QA 76.9 .K57 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Indianapolis, IN : PB - John Wiley & Sons, KW - DATA WAREHOUSING KW - DATABASE DESIGN KW - BUSINESS ENTERPRISES -- DATA PROCESSING KW - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE KW - BUSINESS ENTERPRISES N1 - Includes index; 1. Data warehousing, business intelligence, and dimensional modeling primer -- 2. Kimball dimensional modeling techniques overview -- 3. Retail sales -- 4. Inventory -- 5. Procurement -- 6. Order management -- 7. Accounting -- 8. Customer relationship management -- 9. Human resources management -- 10. Financial services -- 11. Telecommunications -- 12. Transportation -- 13. Education -- 14. Healthcare -- 15. Electronic commerce -- 16.Insurance -- 17.Kimball DW/BI lifecycle overview -- 18. Dimensional modeling process and tasks -- 19. ETL subsytems and techniques -- 20.ETL system design and development process and tasks -- 21. Big data analytics. N2 - The first edition of Ralph Kimball's The Data Warehouse Toolkit introduced the industry to dimensional modeling,and now his books are considered the most authoritative guides in this space. This new third edition is a complete library of updated dimensional modeling techniques, the most comprehensive collection ever. It covers new and enhanced star schema dimensional modeling patterns, adds two new chapters on ETL techniques, includes new and expanded business matrices for 12 case studies, and more. Design dimensional databases that are easy to understand and provide fast query response with The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 3rd Edition ER -