The Data Warehouse Method

Overview

This book presents a coherent, systematic approach to building, maintaining and evolving today's largest data warehouses. Discover what quality data warehouse processes and technical architectures have in common, and key success factors in choosing and using managed query environment tools. Learn next-generation methodologies for workflow strategy, analysis and design. Understand the role of the database administrator in tuning, controlling parallelism, tablespaces and processes; and optimizing performance.Database professionals who need to construct and manage very large data warehouses.

Walk through the construction of a data warehouse using VLDB and OODBMS principles.
Covers 64-bit multiprocessor UNIX systems, Oracle; BusinessObjects, Cognos and other query environments.
Included on the CD is a prototype of an Aggregate Wizard that develops pre-aggregated summaries for use in the Managed Query Environment.

This is an advanced book in the Data Warehousing series. It fills an important niche in the high-end of thispublishing program. The book presents a methodology for designing and building a very large data warehouse using VLDB (very large database) technology and Object-Oriented design principles. The specific technologies described in the book include Oracle DBMS, multi-processor 64-bit UNIX servers, Business Objects and Cognos query environments. Accompanying the book will be a CD-ROM that includes demonstration versions of some of these tools.

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