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Title: Theory mets Practice
Review: This book brings together the Kimball Groups solid work around Dimensional Modeling with Microsoft's latest version of SQL Server. While the other books by the Kimball Group have excelled on explaining Dimensional Modeling, they often fell short in giving practical advice for implementation. For example the ETL Toolkit frequently used awd, sed, etc. - although often found in legacy systems these tools generally aren't the first choice when building a new DW. The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit took the hit (chose a vendor) and uses SQL Server's Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, etc. to build very practical and useful examples. And through excellent use of references to the other Kimball Group books and a `conformed' terminology approach this book serves as an excellent guide for building a Data Warehouse in SQL Server 2005.
