From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Aug 8 08:14:48 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j78DEmsf026226 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:14:48 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j78DEiIP026208 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:14:44 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id BCC541DD406; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:14:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28439-03; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:14:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 304451DD253; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:14:41 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=gr/wmYnjENFXFMro+MuwkBbMzftz5K0jfIUffxk9xSQU3UjueTH6cIed0iF/PXLzYwKqYgZhmydsRPZElG4QTKOveLH0tiDcBzPy+gFmAvspl7Lk07O+Jrx5WVx2fIYMwujWMtY2RRysdPGtynK9rIo5Xq8p15EYlv9Nx1V5iu0= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:12:44 -0500 From: Dennis Williams To: mburgess_nz@yahoo.co.nz Subject: Re: Oracle Datawarehouse Books Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org In-Reply-To: <20050805080159.48602.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5418_6925373.1123506764439" References: <20050805080159.48602.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-archive-position: 23537 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: oracledba.williams@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracledba.williams@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_Part_5418_6925373.1123506764439 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Mark, My suggestion would be to first understand the fundamentals of data=20 warehousing, then the Oracle pieces will fall into place. If you start off= =20 chasing Oracle ideas, I think you'll just become confused. The masters of= =20 this area are Ralph Kimball (www.ralphkimball.com)=20 and Bill Inmon (www.billinmon.com ). I had the=20 pleasure of attending a seminar by Tim Gorman recently and was very pleased= .=20 He does a nice job of tying the basics of DW to specific Oracle features ( http://www.evdbt.com/). Maybe you can entice him to present his seminar on= =20 the other side of the world (NZ). Dennis Williams On 8/5/05, Mark Burgess wrote:=20 >=20 > Hi, >=20 > can anyone recommend some books on datawarehousing on > Oracle that would be useful reference material? >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Mark >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > ____________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos: Now with unlimited storage > http://au.photos.yahoo.com > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > ------=_Part_5418_6925373.1123506764439 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Mark,
 
My suggestion would be to first understand the fundamentals of data wa= rehousing, then the Oracle pieces will fall into place. If you start off ch= asing Oracle ideas, I think you'll just become confused. The masters of thi= s area are Ralph Kimball ( www.ralphkimball.com) and Bill = Inmon (www.billinmon.com). I had t= he pleasure of attending a seminar by Tim Gorman recently and was very plea= sed. He does a nice job of tying the basics of DW to specific Oracle featur= es ( http://www.evdbt.com/). Maybe you can= entice him to present his seminar on the other side of the world (NZ).
 
Dennis Williams

 
On 8/5/05, M= ark Burgess <mburgess_nz@= yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
Hi,

can anyone recommend = some books on datawarehousing on
Oracle that would be useful reference m= aterial?

Regards,

Mark




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