It’s not “Enterprise Transform and Load”
John Writes:
Just a point of correction: in your opening paragraph you stated "One of my favorites was how to test ETL (Enterprise Transform and Load) and Queries." ETL actually stands for "Extract, Transform and Load", unless you are referring to something that is Agile specific, which would seem confusing to me as a database engineer who specializes in ETL design using DataStage.
I enjoy your column and look forward to reading it each time. Keep up the good work!
Where Do You Find That Book?
A number of people have written in with questions about the exact title and author of the book I mentioned yesterday on Agile Database Warehousing. The book information may be found at Amazon at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6740601-agile-data-warehousing.
The actual title is “Agile Data Warehousing: Delivering World-Class Business Intelligence Systems Using Scrum and XP” by Ralph Hughes et al. This is the first book in a series of three. Mr. Hughes and his team built the series based on the lessons learned building an Agile Data Warehousing practice for their consulting firm.
Personally, I learn best by reading. I need to have the overall context where the details come together. I need to know what I am trying to accomplish as much as the syntax of getting work done. So, when I find help on the internet it usually shows me code snippets or defines individual methods or properties of a class library. A book often works better for me because it defines what problems a library is trying to solve, and how it was put together to solve those problems.
Others have asked regarding other books I have read they might find interesting. Why not write in with your list of good reads, and I’ll compile a list for the Friday newsletter. Send your titles to btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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