Re: Suggest me a book on Data Warehousing...

news-uk@dircon.co.uk.nojunk (Phil Edwards) wrote: >On Thu, 15 May 1997 15:10:57 +0100, Cihangir BIYIKOGLU ><Cihangir@hyperlink.com> wrote: >>I am searching for a book on >> >> Data Warehousing and Mining >> >>Can you suggest me one , a good book that will cover it all...? >< Headers de-munged > >No, but a book by Bill (W.H.) Inmon called, I think, _Building the >Data Warehouse_ is going to be worth a look. >-- >Phil Edwards phil@news400.com >Editor, NEWS/400.uk +44 (0)161 929 0777 Building the Data Warehouse by Inmon is good, but a tended to be a bit too theoretical for me at times. Ralph Kimball (formerly of Red Brick) wrote a very good practical-type book called the Data Warehouse Toolkit that gives lots of real life examples. Basically, if you read these two books you'll have a very good understanding of the theory and practice of building and maintaining a data warehouse. Steve Kain ------------------ skain@peapod.com