Automobile Accident Costs and Payments: Studies in the Economics of Injury Protection (Michigan Legal Publications)

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Automobile Accident Costs and Payments: Studies in the Economics of Injury Protection (Michigan Legal Publications)
Alfred F. Conard
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Hidden Markov Models: Applications to Financial Economics (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics)
R. Bhar , and Shigeyuki Hamori
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Markov chains have increasingly become useful way of capturing stochastic nature of many economic and financial variables. Although the hidden Markov processes have been widely employed for some time in many engineering applications e.g. speech recognition, its effectiveness has now been recognized in areas of social science research as well. The main aim of Hidden Markov Models: Applications to Financial Economics is to make such techniques available to more researchers in financial economics. As such we only cover the necessary theoretical aspects in each chapter while focusing on real life applications using contemporary data mainly from OECD group of countries. The underlying assumption here is that the researchers in financial economics would be familiar with such application although empirical techniques would be more traditional econometrics. Keeping the application level in a more familiar level, we focus on the methodology based on hidden Markov processes. This will, we believe, help the reader to develop more in-depth understanding of the modeling issues thereby benefiting their future research.

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This work challenges traditional monetary theory by focusing on the role of banks. It brings together an international team of contributors with a wide experience of the subject.

Monetary Macroeconomics: A New Approach (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 15)

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Monetary Macroeconomics: A New Approach (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 15)
Alvaro Cencini
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This book provides the grounding for a new approach to monetary economics, based on the book-keeping nature of money. The main themes of macroeconomics are examined to show how we may improve our understanding through a thorough analysis of their monetary aspects.

Monetary Union and Fiscal Stability: A New Approach

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Monetary Union and Fiscal Stability: A New Approach
Frank Bohn
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This book addresses the macroeconomic implications of a country's transition to a monetary union. By using a dynamic multi-country simulation model, it is possible to pinpoint a monetary union, and repercussions produced by fiscal retrenchment policies. Interest and exchange rate effects could only be captured once a new approach including innovations in the solution methodology had been developed. Not only can we draw lessons for newly joining members to the EMU or to any other monetary union, but the analysis also implicitly offers a new explanation for the weak Euro in the first half of 1999.

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Enjoyable period work.......2007-09-30

Before the homespun/off-kilter "Observational" style seemed to reach a peek with Seinfeld, "The View", "The Savage Nation", Andy Rooney was poundin' that IBM Selectric, producing some tasty journalistic tidbits for us folks out there in the masses dreading another working week coming up in about 10 hours.
His writing style is original; his phraseology is timed with the precision of a great vaudeville monologist like a Jack Benny or George Burns. But that was before "Political" humour really took over. So, in a way, Rooney, is the kinder-gentler General Audience Lenny Bruce of the '80s.
This book is crammed with all the quotable quotes which sustain us on that miserable Monday at work (following a 40 minute late arrival at glaring, knowing nod from the creature at the end of the hallway who decides folks' employability).
As a Period piece, Not That You Asked has its' share of dated bits and pieces: how come the bride gets the newspaper coverage, not the groom? (Not that there's anything wrong with it) but what guy wants his kisser out there?. I daresay Rooney would be the last - although apparently he agreed to have his visage on the cover of this book; he also asks the question, is the Creator of the Cosmos a member of the Republican Party? By now, after watching "Hannity & Colmes" at least once, a reader might say, that question is a tad tired. (Although, the Creator can do anything He/She wants).
Another slightly played-out theme is Where I would take Gorbachev if I had the chance to hang out with him for 24 hours? - I'd show him all the Culture and History that goes with Freedom. Well, of course, these writings came before the Wall came down, and the Internet went up.
Maybe Rooney's the TV version of Will Rogers? This book might help you decide on an answer.

Humorous but not on a par with his other works.......2007-09-06

This book is good for a few laughs but lacks the humour that most of his other books have. More importantly, it seems to lack the wit and insight of his other books.

words of wisdom and not so wise thoughts.......2006-10-09

Old men usually have a lot of important things to say; the problem is that either many of them do not know how to say it in an interesting and engaging manner, or do not care to share their wise thoughts as they've learned that silence is golden. Not so with Andy Rooney; this crankiest of old men has a lot of things to say, loves to say them, and is pretty good at making it interesting. An example is this book, one of multiple by the 60 minutes personae. Written as a compilation of items he has discussed on air at various times, each short section examines a certain issue from multiple points of view. Some topics are heavy; like the Cold War or women's rights. Other topics are more lighthearted; like food, sports, and annoying habits that we put up with in our close relations. This is an interesting book and worth the time to read it. The book appeals to more than just old people, and anyone with any sort of humor can appreciate it. I recommend it.

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Wit, Humor and a Whole Lot More
A collection of wonderful essays.

Not That You Asked
Mark Randall
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Wit, Humor and a Whole Lot More.......2001-10-03

This book is a romp! Mark Randall takes on life, politics and the human condition with an insightful wit, humor and great panache. Make time to join Randall as he muses middle age, the education system, parenthood and the joys and tribulations of urban life. This is a wonderful collection of essays that spare no one, not even the author.

A collection of wonderful essays........2001-09-24

"...wonderful essays...elegant writing...combines the literary lucidity of Edmund Wilson and the wicked wit of Oscar Wilde." The Philadelphia Inquirer 9/05/01

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Not That You Asked
Andrew A. Rooney
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Not That You Asked Signed
Steve Almond
Manufacturer: Random House
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(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions

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This Book Rocks!
Not worthwhile, not that you asked
almond owes me a couple of beers
Steve Almond is brilliant.
My Male doppelganger?

(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
Steve Almond
Manufacturer: Random House
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Release Date: 2007-09-11

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An Exclusive Essay from Author Steve Almond

Steve Almond is obsessed. He first offered the world a peek into his fixations in My Life in Heavy Metal, a collection of short stories throbbing with hookups, drunken kisses, failed passes, souring relationships, and, naturally, heavy metal. But Almond forever chewed the hard chocolate shell from his creamy inner obsessive with 2004's Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America--a sort of On the Road for the sugar set, documenting an epic journey through America's confectionary highways and backroads. Almond is back with (Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, a collection of autobiographical pieces covering topics as diverse as Oprah Winfrey, Kurt Vonnegut, sexual failure, and the many varieties of shame. We asked Almond just what it is about obsession that drives his work, as well is its intrinsic value in all art--low and high.

The Obsession Engine
Why House of Rock with Bret Michaels could be your next novel. Or not.

By Steve Almond

A close friend of mine - who may or may not be my wife - recently fell in love with the VH-1 reality series House of Rock. For those of you who are not hip to its charms, HoR stars Bret Michaels, the former lead singer of Poison, and a gaggle of women vying to become his soul mate. I hope you will not be shocked to learn that several of these potential soul mates are strippers. Nor do all of them appear to be virgins.

My friend insists that her interest in the program is purely anthropological. But I happen to know that she spent a good portion of her adolescence listening to Eighties hair metal bands and dreaming about bedding dudes like Bret Michaels and even working, briefly, as a waitress in a topless bar. She comes by her obsession naturally, is my point.

The longer I read and write, the more I come to view obsession as the essential engine of literature. I am not suggesting that my wife, er, friend should write a novel about House of Rock. (The series is, by her own description, a kind of pulp novel already--histrionic, predictable, crushingly squalid.) What I'm suggesting is that her allegiance to the program identifies essential fears and desires within her, ones which embarrass her quite robustly and therefore belong in the novel she hopes to write.

To take this a step further: I'm not interested in writing that isn't obsessive. Who is? We're all drama queens in the end. We all come to stories with two basic questions: Who do I care about? And What do they care about? As long as our hero, or heroine, cares deeply about something (i.e. is obsessed), and as long as they're willing to tell us their own twisted version of the truth, we'll come along for the ride.

Don't believe me? Let me call to the stand my star witness, Humbert Humbert. Read more...

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How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised by a pack of wolves? Frankly, we haven’t got a clue. What we do know is that Almond has a knack for converting his dustups into essays that are both funny and furious. In (Not that You Asked), he squares off against Sean Hannity on national TV, nearly gets arrested for stealing “Sta-Hard” gel from his local pharmacy, and winds up in Boston, where he quickly enrages the entire population of the Red Sox Nation. Almond is, as they say in Yiddish, a tummler.

Almond on personal grooming: “Why, exactly, did I feel it would be ‘sexy’ and ‘hot’ to have my girlfriend wax my chest? I can offer no good answer to this question today. I could offer no good answer at the time.”
On sports: “To be a fan is to live in a condition of willed helplessness. We are (for the most part) men who sit around and watch other men run and leap and sweat and grapple each other. It is a deeply homoerotic pattern of conduct, often interracial in nature, and essentially humiliating.”
On popular culture: “I have never actually owned a TV, a fact I mention whenever possible, in the hopes that it will make me seem noble and possibly lead to oral sex.”
On his literary hero, Kurt Vonnegut: “His books perform the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination.”
On religion: “Every year, when Chanukah season rolled around, my brothers and I would make the suburban pilgrimage to the home of our grandparents, where we would ring in the holiday with a big, juicy Chanukah ham.”

The essays in (Not that You Asked) will make you laugh out loud, or, maybe just as likely, hurl the book across the room. Either way, you’ll find Steve Almond savagely entertaining. Not that you asked.

“A pop-culture-saturated intellectual, a kindly grouch, vitriolic Boston Red Sox hater, neurotic new father and Kurt Vonnegut fanatic… [Almond] scores big in every chapter of this must-have collection. Biting humor, honesty, smarts and heart: Vonnegut himself would have been proud.”
—— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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This Book Rocks!.......2007-10-03

Anyone familiar with Steve Almond's dangerous wit knows what he is capable of doing on the printed page, and his latest book is no exception.

I laughed my way through most of it, and the rest stuck with me for weeks afterward. There's method to this kind of "madness," not entirely unlike the fool in King Lear. The observations can be at turns humorous, wry, profound, and even make you feel a little queasy in places. But the reasoning behind them runs deep enough to achieve a Zen-like clarity on some things that really matter these days--like war, sex, and baseball.

Last summer, I had a chance to see Almond speak at the Tin House Writer's Workshop in Portland, Oregon. He brought down the house with his ideas on the finer points of writing erotic fiction. It was f@#*ing hilarious. At the end of the lecture, he threw a Molotov cocktail into the mix by addressing a few of the reasons that any abiding literature holds true to the human condition. And then he managed to show how this same rationale holds true for the erotic, at least when it's done right (and Almond has certainly done it right; after all, he was featured in the Best American Erotica 2005 edition).

Thankfully, that Tin House lecture was based on one of the chapters in (Not That You Asked), and so I was treated to another round of coaching once I bought the book. Look out, Best American Erotica 2008, here I come!

I strongly recommend picking up a copy of (Not That You Asked). It is the perfect companion for busy people on the go. Even though it's hard to put down, most of the pieces are easy to pick up right where you left off.

I also recommend Almond's short story collections, particularly The Evil B.B. Chow.

Not worthwhile, not that you asked.......2007-10-03

I bought this book to have something to read on a flight. I found this book to be unreadable and simply left it in the hotel room. The essays wander without the focus of good rants or good reading. The author takes occasional pop shots at political figures he dislikes, which further diffuses the already weak focus of the essays. I'd say if your political views are left slanted, or your just nuts about Vonnegut but like your rants watered down without depth of insight, perhaps you'd like this collection. Otherwise, maybe you can just find a discarded copy.

almond owes me a couple of beers.......2007-10-01

i taught "my life in heavy metal" and "the evil b.b. chow" in my upper division university writing course and thus, steve, i think you oughta buy me a pitcher at LEAST...

the new collection is fantastic--humane, erudite, not quite as raucously funny as touted (but chuckleworthy nonetheless), and beautifully paced while paying careful attention to le mot juste.

not that he REALLY needs the extra sales--cause he's (as he should be) most vogue right now.

if you like DAVID FOSTER WALLACE'S essays better than his fiction, GEORGE SAUNDERS, or PHILIP ROTH...buy this buy this buy this...

[brilliant.]

Steve Almond is brilliant........2007-09-24

Steve Almond is so smart that it's kind of scary. His prose is absolutely faultless. His sense of humor is spot on. And his courage in writing some of these pretty daring essays is admirable. We should all be so honest and forthright and unafraid. This is a book you will pick up and not want to put down (like all his books, really). I can't recommend this book enough. It will not dissappoint.

My Male doppelganger?.......2007-09-21

I picked up a copy of "Which Brings me to You" years ago at my local library. I found it to be both savory and sweet and absolutely delicious. Since then I've had a huge craving for anything he's written.

"Not That You Asked" satiated my hunger for more. It probably helped that I consider him my male doppelganger. We both share a love of candy, the Oakland A's, have a connection to the Bronx, were arrested as teens and admit to watching (or in his case actually being on) Dance party. Steve embraces his dork side and pervert side with equal reverence which is so refreshing.

There are so many things I admire about Steve Almond. He's a talented and gifted writer and his ego has yet to catch up with his talent. He has never compromised his art in order to move himself up into a higher tax bracket or to please those that could help him move in that direction (Ya hear that NY Times Book review!!!.... you s - - k. )

His vulnerability is most evident and heartbreaking in the chapter about his obsession with Vonnegut. You want to just hug him and tell him that in some way he has affected the lives of others. For me it's his ability to write about the absurdities of life and make it funny.......he just consistently cracks me up.

I will continue to spread the word and recommend Steve to everyone I know. Many have thanked me profusely. Now if I could just get them to show their gratitutde with candy

TIME LIFE, BOOK DIGEST, The Fortune, Gaden Lies, Season in Hell and Not That You Asked (TIME LIFE BOOK DIGEST)

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TIME LIFE, BOOK DIGEST, The Fortune, Gaden Lies, Season in Hell and Not That You Asked (TIME LIFE BOOK DIGEST)

Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Four stories in one book as listed under title.

Conceptual artists: it's not often that financial managers are asked to give vent to their imagination, but that's what you need to do if you want to play ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)

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Conceptual artists: it's not often that financial managers are asked to give vent to their imagination, but that's what you need to do if you want to play ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)
David Allen
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This digital document is an article from Financial Management (UK), published by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 921 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conceptual artists: it's not often that financial managers are asked to give vent to their imagination, but that's what you need to do if you want to play an active role at the strategic level.(Management)
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Date: March 1, 2004
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NOT THAT YOU ASKED
Andy Rooney
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Exploring several genres of popular music through recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello, Brackett develops a set of tools for looking at both the formal and cultural dimensions of popular music of all kinds.

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Brilliant, Eclectic. Rigorous, and Open-Ended........2004-08-10

David Brackett's "Interpreting Popular Music" is a very valuable addition to the field of popular music scholarship. It self-consciously avoids a general theory of popular music scholarship, but rather makes the case that a wide variety of individual approaches, best tailored to 1) the music involved, and 2) the relative, changing stance of the interpreter to the kind of music at hand, provide the most honest and productive hermeneutic. Add this to a forceful defense of paying attention to popular music (take note, musicologists and ethnomusicologists!) and you have a brilliant, rigorous, but open-ended approach to an area of music until recently mostly ignored by musicology.

Having said that, Brackett takes several subjects for analysis: Hank Williams "You're Cheating Heart," Billie Holiday and Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Seeing You", James Brown"s "Superbad," and Elvis Costello's "Pills and Soap." At each point he critiques and complicates some commonly-held notions, such as biographical relationships between artists and their music (Holiday), notions of immediate 'authenticity' (Williams), and the notions that one can't really write about music, or that musical difference and marketability are at odds (Costello). Drawing on the work of Richard Middleton, Simon Frith and other music scholars, Brackett builds his case at each turn with the help of speech-act theory, African-American literary theory, and "spectrum graphs"-- pitch vs time graphs that help the reader analyze and compare inflection, timbre, style and scope in a more tangible way that simple adjectives. But for the more casual reader, the writing itself is easy and unencumbered. This is a good introduction (without intending to be so) for the beginning scholar of cultural music studies, as the reader really gets a good look at the wide variety of tools available to examine music--not just formal analysis.

Must-read for anyone into music or pop culture studies........1997-06-06

David Brackett's work is a major contribution to the field of popular music scholarship, as well as to the growing debates about the future of music studies. It's wonderfully readable, thoughtful and wide-ranging, and he challenges some sacred cows in both musicology and popular music studies.

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1141 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Interpreting Popular Music. (book reviews)
Author: Robert Walser
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v55 Issue: n1 Page: p126(2)

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Basic Radio Journalism is a working manual and practical guide to the tools and techniques necessary to succeed in radio journalism. It will be useful both to students starting a broadcasting career as well as experienced journalists wishing to develop and expand their skills.

Based on the popular Local Radio Journalism, this book covers the core skills of news gathering, writing, interviewing, reporting and reading with extensive hints and tips. It outlines working practices in both BBC and commercial radio. There are revamped legal and technical sections as well as a new chapter on the journalist as programme producer. For the student, there is extensive advice about getting a job, marketing yourself and dealing with job interviews.

The Foreword is by Lord Ryder of Wensum, vice chairman of the BBC.

* A manual and handbook for working journalists and an ideal starter textbook for radio journalism and media students
* Written by two experienced journalists and trainers
* Includes the latest digital production techniques as well as scores of practical hints and tips covering the core skills of radio journalism

Basic Laboratory Exercises for Field, Audio and TV Studio Production

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Basic Laboratory Exercises for Field, Audio and TV Studio Production
Michael J. Havice
Manufacturer: Iowa State Press
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Basic Radio Journalism
Paul Chantler; Peter Stewart
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Basic Radio Journalism
Paul Chanter
Manufacturer: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMAN
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K3LDLW

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Practical Implementation Details.......2007-03-15

Gives the straight scoop on how to make the star transformation work right. Not wicked technical, a book for doers. Non-nonsense, read it in a day, then get the job done. Just what a practitioner needs (at least it is just what I needed). Thanks.

Unprofessional style and lack of knowledge.......2005-12-21

The author definitely has an arrogant style of writing. The book just talks about one way of doing things without being open about other possible better ways of designing and implementing efficient techniques. Oracle features such as partitioning, materialized views, external tables are not done enough justice.

Data warehouse requirements are much more than the two-dimentional approach discussed. There is minimal or no discussion of performance at the system level taking into account infrastruture, architecture, query optimizaion, front-end tools etc.

A very narrow outlook on datawarehouse implementations.

A Recipe for Success.......2004-08-21

Allow me to bestow some well-deserved praise upon Bert Scalzo's terrific "Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas". A true gem - I won't go on another Oracle project without it.

What Bert provides here is nothing short of a clear and crisp recipe for success for implementing Oracle-based data warehouses. It fills in a much-needed area of dimensional data warehousing best practices, by describing precisely how to coax the best achieveable Oracle performance from dimensional data models.

I can't tell you how many projects I've been on where I've had to compromise physical data models in order to address perceived "shortcomings" in Oracle's ability to efficiently service dimensional queries. Using Bert's book on my most recent project, we followed his "recipe", and were able to consistently achieve the ideal query optimization plans and aggregate navigation behaviors - simply - without any of the usual hassles that I have (unfairly) come to associate with large scale Oracle data warehousing.

To data warehousing newbies I humbly suggest: pick up any one of Ralph Kimball's terrific texts on data warehouse design, and then if you are rendering it in Oracle, buy this book and follow its advice. The resultant system will be simple, powerful, and fast.

Bravo Bert - a great contribution to the field.

Jim Stagnitto
Llumino, Inc (www.llumino.com)

Loosely coupled - arrogant attitude.......2004-08-05

I am uninterested in the authors opinion on this and that. I do not need to be looked down upon because I made something that the author thinks is inappropriate or possibly ridiculous. What I am looking for in a profesional book is vision, possiblity, technique, option and positive experience.

When the author argues that 'just throw in as many as you need to keep your users happy' as he does for aggregates I loose my potential profesional respect for that author and put the book aside as untrustworthy. I know very well that I get an unwanted result because I am missing some possibly good points, but the simple nuiscense I get from reading the book leads me to other souces.

A final question: why would I need the proposed aggregates when I have materialized views? If anyone would like to answer my mail id is njessen@sol.dk.

A Veritable Gold Mine of Practical Hints and Tips!.......2004-02-18

As an Oracle DBA transitioning from the OLTP world to the warehousing arena, I found this book enormously helpful. In a mere 200 pages, Mr. Scalzo has elaborated on an extensive range of data warehousing topics, including: star-schemas, dimension hierarchies, SQL-tuning, partitioning and parallel loading to name a few. His style is informative and direct; his examples are meaningful and clear!

This is a must-have book for all DBA's serious about designing and managing large-scale, lightning-fast data warehousing systems.

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Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas
Bert Scalzo
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Binding: Paperback

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