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This book contains essential topics of data warehousing that embarking on a data warehousing journey will need to understand in order to build a data warehouse. It covers dimensional modelling, data extraction from source system, dimension and fact table population, data quality, and database design. It also explains practical data ware housing applications such as business intelligence, analytic applications, and customer relationship management. All in all, the book covers the whole spectrum of data ware housing from start to finish

Vincent wrote this bok to help people with a basic knowledge of database systems who want to take their step into data ware housing. People who are familiar with data bases such as DBAs and developers who have never built a data ware house will benefit the most from this book. IT students and self learners will also benefit. In addition, BI and data warehousing proffesionals will be interested in checking out the practical examples, code, techniques, and architectures described in the book.

Throughout this book, we will be building a data ware house using the Amadeus Entertainment case study, an entertainment retailer specializing in music, films, and audio books. We will use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2088 to build the data ware house and BI applications. You will gain experience designing and building various components of a data ware house, including the architecture, data model physical databases ( using SQL server), ETL (using SSIS), BI reports (using SSRS), OLAP cubes (using SSAS), and data mining (using SSAS).

I wish you great success in your data ware housing journey.

Vincent Rainardi

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