Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support - Hardcover

J.K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133711218 ISBN 13: 9780133711219

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1827

Synopsis

Providing practical technical information and development guidelines for building a data warehouse for decision support processing, this text presents end-to-end coverage of planning, building, and implementing a data warehouse--including modeling and design; mapping, moving, and extracting data; front-end data access tools, querying, and planning for change.

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Review

This is a great book on Data Warehousing for project managers, database designers and administrators, programmers, analysts, and systems and data architects. Beginning with the basics, it covers:

• The difference between operational and analytical processing;
• Architecture and infrastructure for the data warehouse, and examples of real-world implementations within corporations; and
• The "Decision Support Life Cycle" -- from gathering requirements, modeling the data, and designing the database, to application development, implementation, and staff training.

From the Publisher

This book provides practical technical information and development guidelines for building a data warehouse for decision support processing. The author is a recognized expert in the field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1827
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133711218
• ISBN 13: 9780133711219
• Binding: Hardcover