Decision Support In The Data Warehouse
by Hugh J. Watson, Paul Gray, Paul Gray
Unlike most data warehousing books, this one focuses specifically on using data warehouses for decision support. It shows how to choose the best tools and get the best answers. This book walks step-by-step through building and maintaining a data warehouse specifically to support decision making. At a high level, it discusses the fundamental ideas/b>/b>
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Unlike most data warehousing books, this one focuses specifically on using data warehouses for decision support. It shows how to choose the best tools and get the best answers. This book walks step-by-step through building and maintaining a data warehouse specifically to support decision making. At a high level, it discusses the fundamental ideas and concepts of data warehousing. It then explores state-of-the-art tools and applications that can be used to improve the decision-making data delivered by your data warehouse. Several vendors - including Oracle, the world's leading RDBMS vendor - present products and detailed case studies showing how to implement state-of-the-art decision support. For all database administrators and IT professionals, especially those involved in creating and building data warehouses or providing decision support.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780137960798
- Publisher:
- Pearson Technology Group 2
- Publication date:
- 11/24/1998
- Series:
- Data Warehousing Institute Series from Prentice Hall, #4
- Pages:
- 420
- Product dimensions:
- 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.86(d)
Table of Contents
Series Foreword | ||
Foreword | ||
Pt. 1 | Overview | 1 |
1 | Data Warehousing: The New Decision Support Environment | 3 |
Pt. 2 | Creating the Data Warehouse | 33 |
2 | Data Warehousing Strategy | 35 |
3 | Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse | 81 |
Pt. 3 | Supporting Decisions in the Data Warehouse | 121 |
4 | Decision Support Tools | 123 |
5 | Building Decision Support Applications | 157 |
6 | Final thoughts Before Building a Data Warehouse | 189 |
Pt. 4 | Data Warehousing Products for Decision Support | 203 |
7 | NCR Corporation: Scalable Data Warehouse Solutions | 205 |
8 | Oracle Corporation: Enabling Informed Business Decisions | 237 |
9 | Red Brick Systems, Inc.: The Data Warehouse Company | 261 |
10 | Platinum technology, Inc. | 283 |
11 | Brio Technology | 303 |
12 | Comshare, Inc.: Putting Decision Support Technology to Work for Effective Decision Making | 325 |
13 | Seagate Software: Business Intelligence for the Intelligent Business | 351 |
Appendix | Codd's 12 Rules for OLAP | 383 |
References | 387 | |
Index | 395 |
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