Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support / Edition 2
by Vidette Poe, Stephen Brobst, Patricia Klauer, Patricia KlauerIn Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, Second Edition, a team of the world's leading experts presents a start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to designing and implementing data warehouses. You'll find up-to-the-minute solutions-oriented recommendations for the entire data warehouse development lifecycle, including best practices for requirements… See more details below
Overview
In Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, Second Edition, a team of the world's leading experts presents a start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to designing and implementing data warehouses. You'll find up-to-the-minute solutions-oriented recommendations for the entire data warehouse development lifecycle, including best practices for requirements gathering and identifying business objectives; critical success factors - why and how they affect the success of your project; planning, scoping, and managing your data warehouse project; and managing metadata for a production data warehouse.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780137696390
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication date:
- 11/17/1997
- Pages:
- 285
- Product dimensions:
- 7.26(w) x 9.59(h) x 1.11(d)
Table of Contents
Preface | ||
Preface to the First Edition | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
About the Authors | ||
Other Contributors to This Book | ||
Ch. 1 | Let's Start with the Basics | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Understanding Terms and Technology | 15 |
Ch. 3 | Understanding Architecture and Infrastructures | 29 |
Ch. 4 | Critical Success Factors | 51 |
Ch. 5 | The Decision Support Life Cycle | 89 |
Ch. 6 | Getting Started with Data Warehouse Development | 109 |
Ch. 7 | Gathering Data Requirements | 133 |
Ch. 8 | Data Integration | 151 |
Ch. 9 | Designing the Database for a Data Warehouse | 189 |
Ch. 10 | Successful Data Access | 217 |
Ch. 11 | Training, Support, and Rollout | 245 |
Ch. 12 | Metadata | 253 |
App | Consulting Companies Assisting in the Development of this Book | 273 |
Index | 279 |
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