SAP BW 7.3 Books/References

Hello everybody,
I am new in SAP and I have decided to start my career no too far from what I am doing since long back, than I have chose a technical SAP profile (SAP BW 7.3).
It is not being too hard to learn SAP BW technology, but I feel that it is missing something that could help me to speed up my learning process, than I am here to ask you experts for help.
The first point is, I do need a very good book (two books maybe) to have as guide, bible, to have in my bed desk or in my arms everywhere, every time. What I am looking for is something that brings since the basic data warehousing concepts as data modeling to high level information as BW System monitoring (maybe more).
I found this book "SAP Press - SAP Netweaver BW 7.3 - Practical Guide 2nd Edition", it seems be good, but I would get your opinion before open my wallet.
The second point is, I do need to practice these skills, somehow I do need to to. I have access to a "real" SAP environment for the next 10 months, but I was thinking about something else. I heard Amazon has some systems that I can pay to use, but I am not sure how it works neither if I could create a fake environment where I could get enough practice skills. Could someone share your experience on this?
The third and last point is, I am looking for a system or website where I could practice for my certification test (and also to evaluate my skills).
Thanks you so much for now.

Hi Jayram,
I am assuming that you are getting this error when you are loading data from PSA to IO. If so, the error might be because of
1. Duplicate records
PSA might have duplicate records. But you will be able to load only one record to Master data IO. In DTP Update tab, there is an option for "Handle Duplicate Record Keys" . Just enable this & try to load again.
2. Erroneous records.
Some special reocrds are allowed in PSA where as thye might not be allowed in Master Data/Data Targets like Lower case letters/ some speacial characters etc. If error is because of this, then you might need to correct the data at PSA level & reload the data to Master data. Else get it corrected in source system itself & fetch the data to BW. Or write some code to take care of these special characters.
Hope it helps!
Regards,
Pavan

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