Etl Data Warehousing

The Data Warehouse

ETL Toolkit

The Data Warehouse

ETL Toolkit

Practical Techniques for

Extracting, Cleaning,

Conforming, and

Delivering Data

Ralph Kimball

Joe Caserta

Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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