Data Warehouse
Practical Advice from the Experts
Published on 16. June 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
428 pages
978-0-13-577370-3 (ISBN)
Description
Appropriate for new courses in Data Warehousing or Data Management offered at business schools or Computer Science Departments. This is leading edge technology and, in many cases, these courses are just beginning to appear.
Intended as a practical handbook for the Data Warehouse. It is designed to help technical managers, project managers, and members of data warehouse project teams in all aspects of planning, designing, developing, implementing, and administering a data warehouse. It should prepare people to progress toward providing any data anywhere, anytime.
Intended as a practical handbook for the Data Warehouse. It is designed to help technical managers, project managers, and members of data warehouse project teams in all aspects of planning, designing, developing, implementing, and administering a data warehouse. It should prepare people to progress toward providing any data anywhere, anytime.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
877 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-577370-3 (9780135773703)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
I. GETTING STARTED.
1. Introduction.
2. A Renaissance for Information Technology.
3. Organizational and Cultural Issues.
4. Working Effectively with End Users.
5. The Seven Deadly Sins.
6. Real-World Data Warehousing: The Management Challenge.
II. PLANNING THE DATA WAREHOUSE.
7. A Technical Architecture for Data Warehousing.
8. Creating a Business Case.
9. A Flexible Approach to Developing A Data Warehouse.
III. DATA: THE CRITICAL ISSUE.
10. Data Quality.
11. Metadata.
12. The Role of a Directory/Catalog.
13. Data Transformation.
IV. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION.
14. Physical Design.
15. Multidimensional OLAP Versus Relational OLAP.
16. Data Replication in a Global Warehousing Environment.
17. VLDBS and Parallelism.
18. Implementing a Warehouse in a Multiserver Environment Using Parallel Technology.
19. Middleware: Gluing the Warehouse Together.
20. Design Reviews for the Data Warehouse.
21. The Virtual Data Warehouse.
22. Operational Data Stores: Developing an Effective Strategy.
23. Data Mining.
V. DATA WAREHOUSE ADMINISTRATION.
24. Systems Administration.
25. Database Administration Issues in a Heterogeneous Environment.
26. Security in the Data Warehouse.
27. Selecting End-User Tools.
VI. TRENDS.
28. Trends in Data Warehousing.
Glossary.
Author Profiles.
Index.
1. Introduction.
2. A Renaissance for Information Technology.
3. Organizational and Cultural Issues.
4. Working Effectively with End Users.
5. The Seven Deadly Sins.
6. Real-World Data Warehousing: The Management Challenge.
II. PLANNING THE DATA WAREHOUSE.
7. A Technical Architecture for Data Warehousing.
8. Creating a Business Case.
9. A Flexible Approach to Developing A Data Warehouse.
III. DATA: THE CRITICAL ISSUE.
10. Data Quality.
11. Metadata.
12. The Role of a Directory/Catalog.
13. Data Transformation.
IV. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION.
14. Physical Design.
15. Multidimensional OLAP Versus Relational OLAP.
16. Data Replication in a Global Warehousing Environment.
17. VLDBS and Parallelism.
18. Implementing a Warehouse in a Multiserver Environment Using Parallel Technology.
19. Middleware: Gluing the Warehouse Together.
20. Design Reviews for the Data Warehouse.
21. The Virtual Data Warehouse.
22. Operational Data Stores: Developing an Effective Strategy.
23. Data Mining.
V. DATA WAREHOUSE ADMINISTRATION.
24. Systems Administration.
25. Database Administration Issues in a Heterogeneous Environment.
26. Security in the Data Warehouse.
27. Selecting End-User Tools.
VI. TRENDS.
28. Trends in Data Warehousing.
Glossary.
Author Profiles.
Index.