relational databases

I found the beggning chapters are good, but in the latter half, the number of steps became so many that it's painful to follow them. Chapter 7 has 70 pages of step-by-step and I found I am like a robot just going through the steps. (Well, I didn't do it until the end, I am not a robot).

If you are really patient, I'm sure you can learn a lot from this book. Well written and I found the "If you skipeed chapter XX" really helpful.

I have gone through half the book.

The good part:
Walks you through many areas step-by-step. Repeats steps in other excerises. You will learn a lot.

The bad part:
The book doesn't teach you a process from the making of a connection to processing a cube. I need to Extact, Transform, & Load, and then process a cube. The book teaches ETL. Try another book.

TC

After reading the other DTS book by Chaffin, Knight and Robinson, I understood DTS, but did not understand how to apply it. If you want to learn and actually use DTS, this is the book !

Well written with very good examples that not only explain how to do real life types of problems, but explains why you are doing each step.

Thanks Carl !