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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kimball, Ralph.
The data warehouse ETL toolkit : practical techniques for extracting, cleaning, conforming, and
delivering data / Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Data warehousing. 2. Database design. I. Caserta, Joe, 1965- II. Title.
QA76.9.D37K53 2004
005.74—dc22 2004016909
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