Data Warehouse : Practical Advice from the Experts / Edition 1
by Joyce Bischoff, Ted AlexanderA practical handbook for the Data Warehouse that is designed to prepare people to progress toward providing any data anywhere, anytime. Data Warehouse: Practical Advice from the Experts will help technical managers, project managers, and members of data warehouse project teams in all aspects of planning, designing, developing, implementing, and administering a/i>… See more details below
Overview
A practical handbook for the Data Warehouse that is designed to prepare people to progress toward providing any data anywhere, anytime. Data Warehouse: Practical Advice from the Experts will 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 is a practical book based on real-world experiences in building hundreds of data warehouses since each chapter is written by an internationally recognized authority in that particular field. An essential handbook for Technical Managers, Project Managers, Technical Personnel, Data Warehouse Project Teams, and end-users who want to provide access to the wealth of corporate data that has remained unavailable to those who need it.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780135773703
- Publisher:
- Pearson
- Publication date:
- 04/17/1997
- Pages:
- 428
- Product dimensions:
- 7.24(w) x 9.48(h) x 1.02(d)
Table of Contents
Trademarks | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Introduction to Data Warehousing | 4 |
2 | A Renaissance for Information Technology | 16 |
3 | Organizational and Cultural Issues | 30 |
4 | Working Effectively with end Users | 47 |
5 | The Seven Deadly Sins | 57 |
6 | Real-World Data Warehousing: The Management Challenge | 71 |
7 | A Technical Architecture for Data Warehousing | 84 |
8 | Creating a Business Case | 91 |
9 | A Flexible Approach to Developing a Data Warehouse | 100 |
10 | Data Quality | 122 |
11 | Metadata | 135 |
12 | The Role of a Directory/Catalog | 151 |
13 | Data Transformation | 160 |
14 | Physical Design | 177 |
15 | Multidimensional Olap Versus Relational Olap | 199 |
16 | Data Replication in a Global Warehousing Environment | 206 |
17 | VLDBS and Parallelism | 226 |
18 | Implementing a Warehouse in a Multiserver Environment Using Parallel Technology | 238 |
19 | Middleware: Gluing the Warehouse Together | 252 |
20 | Design Reviews for the Data Warehouse | 274 |
21 | The Virtual Data Warehouse | 286 |
22 | Operational Data Stores: Developing an Effective Strategy | 296 |
23 | Data Mining | 309 |
24 | Systems Administration | 325 |
25 | Database Administration Issues in a Heterogeneous Environment | 338 |
26 | Security in the Data Warehouse | 350 |
27 | Selecting End-User Tools | 364 |
28 | Trends in Data Warehousing | 384 |
Glossary | 402 | |
Author Profiles | 414 | |
Index | 422 |
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