At last count, there were over 30 books on data warehouses. Two stand out as good "starter recipes": Ralph Kimball's The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses (1996, ISBN 0-471-15337-0, with CD-ROM) and The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Data Models and Data Warehouse Designs (1997, ISBN 0-471-15364-8), by Len Silverston, Bill Inmon, and Kent Graziano.
) on data warehousing, and U.K.-based market-research firm Spectrum Reports also has good how-to papers and reports at
http://www.aladdin.co.uk/mw_spectra/col
lectn/database.htm
. The Applied Technology Group (ATG,
http://www.techguide.com
) maintains an excellent collection of downloadable technical guides on data-warehousing and data-mart topics, such as right-sizing and assessing storage options.
There are also two good organizations, each with over 3000 members, devoted to the area. One is The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI,
http://www.dw-institute.com
). Membership cost is $195 per year within the U.S.; outside the U.S., the cost is $245. The other organization is DCI's IDWA (
http://www.idwa.org
), which has a membership cost of $100 per year. TDWI also offers an excellent poster on data-warehousing products and maintains a fax-back list of available white papers.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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