* Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading data
warehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than
150, 000 copies
* Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- and
labor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or the
extract, transform, load (ETL) process
* Delineates best practices for extracting data from scattered
sources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming the
remaining data into correctly formatted data structures, and then
loading the end product into the data warehouse
* Offers proven time-saving ETL techniques, comprehensive
guidance on building dimensional structures, and crucial advice on
ensuring data quality
