Super Charge Your Data Warehouse: Invaluable Data Modeling Rules to Implement Your Data Vault
Dan Linstedt is a world-renowned expert in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He has worked on Fortune 50 projects ranging in insurance to classified projects. He has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, and has worked with companies like Nike, PepsiCo, Amex, and Visa. His experience extends through data modeling, process design to ETL/ELT performance and tuning. He has a background in SEI/CMMI Level 5, and has contributed architecture efforts to petabyte scale data warehouses. He is the author and inventor of the Data Vault Model and Methodology.  The pattern based architecture helps you implement your Data Warehouse at the speed of light and the methodology helps you avoid mistakes while at the same time keeping your Data Warehouse audit friendly and ready. Data Warehouses designed any other way are doomed because of the dreaded "life cycle" but the Data Vault alleviates those fears. In a world of real-time data, parallelism, peta byte scalability, mergers and acquisitions, audit laws and everything else that has been thrown at Data Warehouses, the Data Vault has stood the test of time and proven to be capable of solving all these problems gracefully and quickly. This book is written for you, the practitioner - with a firm grasp on the Inmon and Kimball philosophies, you are well positioned to take the next step in improving your knowledge.   This book will help you become a valuable Data Warehouse Expert.