The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit

* Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading datawarehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than150,000 copies * Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- andlabor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or theextract, transform, load (ETL) process * Delineates best practices for extracting data from scatteredsources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming theremaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and thenloading the end product into the data warehouse * Offers proven time-saving ETL techniques, comprehensiveguidance on building dimensional structures, and crucial advice onensuring data quality