Very objective and driven book for Oracle DWH

I bought this one in 2005. At that time I had some experience with MS SQL Server data warehouses but none with Oracle.
I had the fortune to use this book when I was member of the team for the creation of a DWH for a big company, as Oracle is in my opinion the only choice you have for medium to huge DWH.
As a DWH developer and designer I find this book really handy. There are some arguments I don't agree with the author since you cannot speak generally and each implementation has its own issues, but overall the book does help you lots.
I think it is a shame that is such an old version, these days everyone is using 11g or at least 10g but most of the material in the book can work as well with latest versions.
It is somehow difficult at the beggining to figure out how to use all the information in the book but Bert has done a great job describing each problem and pointing out the choices you have to solving them.
I really recommend this one for anyone with some knowledge of Oracle and who is interested in the creation of a Data Warehouse project. The price of the book gets paid off very quickly when you revieve congratulations for the improvement in running queries, and later on more sponsorship from management, which is at the end the ultimate goal of any Data Warehouse.
Thanks Bert, I look forward for your next edition.

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