The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit by Ralph Kimball

The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit

Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data

Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta

Wiley · Print & ebook · October 4, 2004

- Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading data warehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than 150,000 copies - Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- and labor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or the extract, transform, load (ETL) process - Delineates best practices for extracting data from scattered sources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming the remaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and then loading the end product into the data warehouse - Offers proven time-saving ETL techniques, comprehensive guidance on building dimensional structures, and crucial advice on ensuring data quality

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Who it’s for
A practical guide to ETL, from scattered-source extraction to loading data into a warehouse.
Themes
Data warehousing, ETL and data transformation, Data quality
Genres
Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Business Intelligence

About this book

- Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading data warehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than 150,000 copies - Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- and labor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or the extract, transform, load (ETL) process - Delineates best practices for extracting data from scattered sources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming the remaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and then loading the end product into the data warehouse - Offers proven time-saving ETL techniques, comprehensive guidance on building dimensional structures, and crucial advice on ensuring data quality

Data Staging

A practical guide to ETL, from scattered-source extraction to loading data into a warehouse.

Come here for

  • Extracting data from scattered sources
  • Removing redundant and inaccurate data

Expect

  • Guidance on building dimensional structures
  • Advice on ensuring data quality

Where it sits

Data Warehousing99%
Business Intelligence40%
Database Administration31%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Data Warehousing
Authors
Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta
Publisher
Wiley
Published
October 4, 2004
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Data warehousing · ETL and data transformation · Data quality
Reading lane
Data Warehousing