Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing - Softcover

Hobbs, Lilian; Hillson MS In CIS Boston University, Susan; Lawande, Shilpa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555582877 ISBN 13: 9781555582876

Publisher: Digital Press, 2003

Synopsis

Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing is a guide to using the Data Warehouse features in the latest versions of Oracle -- Oracle 9i Release 1 and Release 2. Written by people on the Oracle development team that designed and implemented the code, this updated and expanded edition provides an insider's view of how the
Oracle 9i Release 2 software is best used for your application.

It provides a detailed look at a wide range of topics including:
· New techniques to facilitate the ETL process to transform data and load the warehouse
· How to use the Oracle OLAP and Data Mining options
· An entire chapter devoted to using materialized views to radically improve warehouse performance.

This book will show you how to use the Oracle database with tools such as Oracle Discoverer to query the warehouse, generate reports that can be deployed over the web, and gain better insight into your business.

This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions including screen captures to make it easier to design, build, and optimize performance of the data warehouse or data mart. It is a 'must have' reference for database developers, administrators, and IT professionals who want to get to work now with all of the newest features in Oracle 9i Release 2.

·Based on 9i plus the improvements in Release 2
·Presents concepts with working examples
·Describes best practices and critical implementation tradeoffs, based on users' actual implementations

About this title

About the Author

Lilian Hobbs has been involved in the design and tuning of computer systems for over 20 years and holds a PhD from the University of Southampton. To date she has written 10 books including guides to using the Oracle and Rdb databases. Lilian is a project leader in Oracle's Summary Management Development team.

Susan Hillson is a Senior Director of Engineering Development at Oracle. Her group is responsible for the development of Summary Management, Oracle Data Guard, and the Database Utilities. She holds a MS degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. Susan has over 20 years' experience in the computer industry, including over 6 years teaching programming and database management systems. Susan co-authored Oracle8i Data Warehousing (Digital Press, 2000).

Shilpa Lawande is a principal developer in Oracles's Server Technologies Division. She is a member of the team that introduced materialized view technology into the Oracle server. Shilpa has a BA from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

From the Back Cover

"By using Oracle 9i, pre-summarizing data, and storing it in materialized views, reports that used to take 2 hours to run now complete in 2 minutes." - Chuck Rozwat, Executive Vice President, Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation



Oracle9iR2 Data Warehousing is a guide to using the Data Warehouse features in the latest versions of Oracle -- Oracle 9i Release 1 and Release 2. Written by people on the Oracle development team that designed and implemented the code, this updated and expanded edition provides an insider's view of how the
Oracle 9i Release 2 software is best used for your application.

It provides a detailed look at a wide range of topics including:
· New techniques to facilitate the ETL process to transform data and load the warehouse
· How to use the Oracle OLAP and Data Mining options
· An entire chapter devoted to using materialized views to radically improve warehouse performance.

This book will show you how to use the Oracle database with tools such as Oracle Discoverer to query the warehouse, generate reports that can be deployed over the web, and gain better insight into your business.

This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions including screen captures to make it easier to design, build, and optimize performance of the data warehouse or data mart. It is a 'must have' reference for database developers, administrators, and IT professionals who want to get to work now with all of the newest features in Oracle 9i Release 2.

· Based on 9i plus the improvements in Release 2
· Presents concepts with working examples
· Describes best practices and critical implementation tradeoffs, based on users' actual implementations

Edition details

• Publisher: Digital Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555582877
• ISBN 13: 9781555582876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 519