The Kimball Group wrote the authoritative books on dimensional data warehousing and business intelligence. Our best-selling Toolkit books are recognized for their specific, practical data warehouse and business intelligence techniques and recommendations. Over 450,000 copies have been sold worldwide.

If you’re just getting started and want a holistic overview of the Kimball methodology, start with the Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit. The Data Warehouse Toolkit covers dimensional modeling in detail, while the ETL Toolkit is appropriate for architecting the ETL system. The Microsoft Toolkit addresses the Kimball approach on the Microsoft platform. And finally, the Kimball Group Reader is a remastered compilation of our articles, Design Tips and white papers.