Oracle® DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank all the various employers and customers for whom I've had the pleasure of working on their data warehousing projects, most notably Citicorp, Tele-Check, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and 7-Eleven. I'd also like to thank the numerous people in data warehousing that I've either met and/or learned from, including Ralph Kimball and Gary Dodge. I also owe much to the other DBAs with whom I've worked on data warehousing projects, including Ted Chiang, Keith Carmichael, Terry Porter, and Gerald Townsend. Finally, I owe a lot to Paul Whitworth, the best data warehousing project manager I ever worked for. Paul, more than anyone else, permitted me the time and freedom to develop into an expert on data warehousing.

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