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A leading proponent of the dimensional data warehouse, a database model designed to improve managers' ability to quickly analyze large, multidimensional data sets, provides concrete tools for designing, building, managing, and using dimensional data warehouses for different types of business applications. A CD- ROM includes software for querying dimensional data warehouses and working models of all databases described in the book. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

RALPH KIMBALL currently designs large data warehouses for a living, in addition to teaching and consulting. He also writes the Data Warehouse Architect column for DBMS magazine and was co-inventor of the Xerox Star workstation, the first commercial product to use mice, icons, and windows. Dr. Kimball was vice president of applications at Metaphor Computer Systems, and founder and CEO of Red Brick Systems. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.