Data Warehousing with Informix: Best Practices / Edition 1
by Angela Sanchez, Informix Press
A Comprehensive Look at an Exploding Technology
Data Warehousing-From Planning Through Performance-By Top Experts in the Field
For a large and growing list of industries, data warehouses are rapidly becoming a "must-have" strategic business tool. Yet data warehouses are made up of a complex mix of products and technologies, making it tough to keep up with
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A Comprehensive Look at an Exploding Technology
Data Warehousing-From Planning Through Performance-By Top Experts in the Field
For a large and growing list of industries, data warehouses are rapidly becoming a "must-have" strategic business tool. Yet data warehouses are made up of a complex mix of products and technologies, making it tough to keep up with all the latest strategies, theories, and approaches to design and implementation. Data Warehousing with Informix: Best Practices was created to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest information, with a special focus on Informix-based systems.
This single volume presents the most innovative ideas on data warehousing, from the most experienced professionals. The book is organized around four main themes:
- Warehouse Design and Implementation
- Hardware, Storage, and Backup
- The Decision-Support Community
- Future Trends
Whether a data warehousing novice or veteran, you will find a wealth of information and ideas in these essays from best-selling authors and well-known authorities in the technology. The contributors represent a variety of viewpoints, from theorists, to nuts-and-bolts programmers, to project/organizational managers. In all cases, the focus remains the same-competitive and strategic advantage for your organization.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780130796226
- Publisher:
- Pearson Education
- Publication date:
- 03/10/1998
- Series:
- Informix Press Series
- Pages:
- 352
- Product dimensions:
- 7.02(w) x 9.23(h) x 0.96(d)
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Ch. 1 | The DSS Community: Tourists, Explorers, and Farmers | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Managing the Data Warehouse: The Advent of the Data Warehouse Administrator | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | Using a Rational Approach to Build Your Data Warehouse | 29 |
| Ch. 4 | Starting the Data Warehouse from a Data Model | 51 |
| Ch. 5 | Integrating Data to Populate the Data Warehouse | 67 |
| Ch. 6 | Designing an OLAP Data Mart on Relational Databases | 99 |
| Ch. 7 | A Data Mining Tutorial | 121 |
| Ch. 8 | Sampling: The Latest Breakthrough in Decision-Support Technology | 149 |
| Ch. 9 | Optimal Architecture for Enterprise-Class Data Warehousing | 167 |
| Ch. 10 | Data Warehousing and the Value of 64-Bit Computing | 189 |
| Ch. 11 | The Use of Storage Subsystems in Data Warehousing | 205 |
| Ch. 12 | The Backup and Recovery of Very Large Databases | 231 |
| Ch. 13 | A Manager's Guide to Informix Database Protection | 255 |
| Ch. 14 | Determining Available dbspaces | 269 |
| Ch. 15 | A Platform for the Universal Warehouse | 275 |
| Ch. 16 | Building Complex Decision-Support Models Using a Universal Warehouse | 301 |
| Index | 313 |
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