The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit

Summary:
This course provides students with the skills necessary to plan, design, build, and run the ETL processes which are needed to build and maintain a data warehouse. It is based on the Ralph Kimball and Joe Caserta book The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit published in 2004 by Wiley Publishing, Inc, ISBN: 0-7645-6757-8.

Duration:
3-4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is targeted at technical staff, team leaders and project managers who need to understand how to plan, design, build, and run the Extract, Transformation, and Load (ETL) processes which are necessary to build and maintain a data warehouse.

Topics:

• Surrounding the Requirements
• ETL Data Structures
• Extracting
• Cleaning and Conforming
• Delivering Dimension Tables
• Delivering Fact Tables
• Development
• Operations
• Metadata
• Responsibilities
• Real-Time ETL Systems
• Conclusions

Prerequisites:
tudents should have good knowledge of how to design a data base through at least third normal form (3NF) as well as good knowledge of how to design a star schema.