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Oracle8 Data Warehousing

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This book is probably the best one stop shop for information on Oracle 8 Data Warehousing. The real world experience that each author bring to the writing adds to the reader education. Written at a level that is informative without being so technical that most audiences are lost. Included is a brief discussion of Oracle ROLAP and MOLAP tools.

I have read a lot of books on data warehousing. Some of them good, some of them terrible. This one is by and far one of the best. Gary did a great job with this book. Of all the books I have read on Data warehousing with Oracle this is the one to which I refer the most. If you are at all interested in Data Warehousing with Oracle GET THIS BOOK. It is a definit must.

This book is by far the most comprehensive, practical data warehousing book that I have seen! It is the book that I have long been seeking. It details how to build a scaleable, highly available solution. The authors not only discuss the techniques for design and implementation of the physical architecture but also include discussion on Oracle's MOLAP tools. It is the ultimate guide for architecting a high quality business solution. I recommend this book to all of my clients!

This book is geared more towards implementing an existing design onto an Oracle database rather than how to design a good warehouse then implement it into Oracle. Its very adept at what it does, I just wish it went over more design theory.

A great book that condenses information scattered across many other books. I'll definitely purchase the oracle8i book upon release.

I agree, this may be the book on Oracle Data Warehousing with the most practical value. On the other hand, the Oracle RDBMS is evolving so dramatically, that this book alone is no longer sufficient. When they publish a second edition, covering Oracle8i features, I'll come back and give it five stars.

The authors have written a first-rate text about implementing data warehouses in Oracle. The topics and most of the discussion would be of interest to anyone involved in deploying data warehouses, regardless of platform or RDBMS.

If you want to know what data warehousing is all about, skip the first few chapters. It will be much better if the author can devote more pages to explain the process of denormalisation, an important process in building the data warehouse as suggested.

Simply put, this book is excellent! The authors take you through all major aspects of data warehousing. There knowledge of Oracle and warehousing in general shines through in every chapter. Combined with an excellent - and sometimes humorous - writing style this ranks as one of the top books in my technical reference library.

This clearly written book book can be comprehended by both DBAs and non-DBAs. The authors have an excellent grasp of what is important in real world implementations.