The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset

I have just started as an architect using the BI Stack of SQL Server. In doing research on project planning and architecture, I see the name Kimball show up repeatedly....well, this is what the research is referring to. As Lee Iaccoca said thirty years ago "if you can find a better product, buy it".

This book is one of the best kept secrets in data warehousing. I am new to building data warehousing but I have been working with SQL since the says of 6.5. I have many data warehousing experts at my career opportunity and everyone agrees that this book is awesome. BTW, I work for a company that handles financial and telecommunications data; lots of it.

This is a great book for how to use and apply the Kimball method for the Microsoft BI tools. I have both the first and the second edition. The first edition has a section on how to setup an ETL auditing framework, so if this is of interest, you might want to get a copy of the first edition.

This book is informative, clearly written and well organized! It uses the Star-Data Mart theory, but throws in some additional, and needed, thoughts along the way. It will stay on my shelf for the data warehousing projects ahead.

Took a long time to arrive. Otherwise, it's what I was expecting.

If you have "green fields" where you're in charge of building a new data warehouse from the ground up, months to develop it, love daily meetings to discuss direction, creating presentations and charts, and selling a data warehouse to sceptical business owners , then this is your book. If you've inherited a data warehouse, then you'll quickly lose patience for the few gems scattered over hundreds of pages.

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What a helpful book on data warehousing. I have read this a few times and thought it was a great resource!

A good overview of the Kimball Lifecycle for Data Warehousing / BI and how SQL Server and associated tools meet the requirements of the methodology. Recommended reading alongside othet Kimball Books The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit and the Data Warehouse Toolkit. Each of these books comes at the subject with a different emphasis but they duplicate and overlap to an extent that the details of the Kimball methodology slowly but surely starts to sink in.Note that although SQL Server is now at version 2014 the DW/BI toolset has not changed fundamentally so this book is still of value

I bought this book as it encompased the Kimball technique and the Microsoft BI Stack detail, and I wasn't disappointed at all! If you buy this book as a technical reference on the Microsoft toolset, then you will be disappointed and should buy something more specific. This book takes you through a data warehouse project, touching on the tools but in a way that gives you 'food for thought' on how you want to do things, but giving enough steer to make sure you don't miss out some fundamentals. A great book and highly recommended!

Good resource for data warehousing knowledge

Very happy with this, some really practical advice and its a great platform to approach this subject from. Especially interesting for me was the methods to use when defining the entities with the business users. It gives excellent advice on how to document and manage these discussions

Great book