Introduction
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
—Colin Powell [1]
[1] The Leadership Secret of Colin Powell, Oren Harari (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).
I've written this book with the hope that it will serve as my lifetime technical contribution to my database administrator (DBA) brethren. It contains the sum knowledge and wisdom I've gathered this past decade, both working on and speaking about data warehousing. It does so purely from the DBA's perspective, solely for the DBA's needs and benefit.
While I've worked on many data warehousing projects, my three years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) as the lead DBA for 7-Eleven Corporation's enterprise data warehouse provided my greatest ...
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