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Any comments on the book 'Oracle 8i Data Warehousing' by Michael Corey,
Michael Abbey, Ian Abramson and Ben Taub (Oracle Press) ?
Thanks and Regards
Madhu
>From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated?
>Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:33:26 -0800
>
>Rachel
> - Glad Inmon's book is working for you. I have only read (or more
>correctly attempted to read) his articles, which can be found at
>http://www.datawarehousing.com/, or at least they previously were
>available.
> - Just be aware that when you switch from reading Inmon or one of his
>followers to Kimball or one of his followers, that the meaning of some
>terms
>change.
> - The oldest Kimball articles at
>http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ports/search_webhouse.shtml are the
>best to start with because they describe the fundamentals of data warehouse
>design.
> - I still think the email list is one of the best resources.
> For help with list commands, send a message
> to <mailto:dwlist-request_at_datawarehousing.com> with the
> word "help" in the body of the message.
>(I'm listing these for the benefit of others on this list)
>Not to discourage you, but companies often take the approach of yours, and
>hire consultants to build the site. They tend to go into a corner and
>develop it and then unveil it when they are "finished", collect their check
>and leave. If you ask questions, it is easy for them to blow past you
>because they are the experts. So from that standpoint, don't panic, just go
>along for the ride and what you can learn. But it is good to read up on
>warehousing so you can ask intelligent questions and don't sound like a
>dinosaur by asking questions like "whaddya mean it isn't normalized?". In
>DW, the real participants are the ones that interview the potential users
>and try to locate data the users will find useful. The DBA tends to be the
>one that gets ordered to load 100-gig of data every night. DW work is like
>a
>lot of other DBA work, but quite different in some respects. At least with
>the email list, if something sounds odd, you can ask some real people for
>some input.
>Dennis Williams
>DBA
>Lifetouch, Inc.
>dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
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