The Microsoft data warehouse toolkit

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This groundbreaking book is the first in the Kimball Toolkit series to be product-specific. Microsoft's BI toolset has undergone significant changes in the SQL Server 2005 development cycle. SQL Server 2005 is the first viable, full-functioned data warehouse and business intelligence platform to be offered at a price that will make data warehousing and business intelligence available to a broad set of organizations. This book is meant to offer practical techniques to guide those organizations through the myriad of challenges to true success as measured by contribution to business value. Building a data warehousing and business intelligence system is a complex business and engineering effort. While there are significant technical challenges to overcome in successfully deploying a data warehouse, the authors find that the most common reason for data warehouse project failure is insufficient focus on the business users and business problems. In an effort to help people ...

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Other Editions

• The Microsoft data warehouse toolkit: with SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence toolsetWiley Pub.2006-01-01
• The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit, With SQL Server 2005 &the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset - 2006 publicationWiley India2006-01-01
• Microsoftdata Warehouse ToolkitWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John2006-01-01
• The Microsoft Data Warehouse ToolkitWiley2006-02-13
• The Microsoft Data Warehouse ToolkitElectronic resourceJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.2007-01-01
• The Microsoft® Data Warehouse ToolkiteBookJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.2007-01-01