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The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit.. Theory meets practice

I had been waiting for Amazon to send my copy of Joy Mundy's, Warren Thorntwaite and Ralph Kimball's new book and let me tell you after going through it for the past few days, I am extremely excited of the potential all customers that I work with will have as they work on their own DW/BI system initiatives. 

 If you ever wondered after reading a theory book how am I ever going to apply this theory to the tools that I have to work with? Well, this book answers that exact question as it takes the best of the conceptual insights from Ralph Kimball's Data Warehouse Life Cycle toolkit and walks through how to use those insights with all the components of SQL Server 2005 including ETL practice with SSIS, data modeling, OLAP, APPLIED data mining, reporting and BI applications.

Here is a link to save you the trouble to finding it on Amazon :) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471267155/sr=8-1/qid=1143313605/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4596045-3657420?%5Fencoding=UTF8 

-Raheel

Published Saturday, March 25, 2006 2:04 PM by raheelr