Data Warehousing Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide for IT Professionals

  • 10h 17m
  • Paulraj Ponniah
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2001

Geared to IT professionals eager to get into the all-important field of data warehousing, this book explores all topics needed by those who design and implement data warehouses. Readers will learn about planning requirements, architecture, infrastructure, data preparation, information delivery, implementation, and maintenance. They'll also find a wealth of industry examples garnered from the author's 25 years of experience in designing and implementing databases and data warehouse applications for major corporations.

In this Book

  • The Compelling Need for Data Warehousing
  • Data Warehouse—The Building Blocks
  • Trends in Data Warehousing
  • Planning and Project Management
  • Defining the Business Requirements
  • Requirements as the Driving Force for Data Warehousing
  • The Architectural Components
  • Infrastructure as the Foundation for Data Warehousing
  • The Significant Role of Metadata
  • Principles of Dimensional Modeling
  • Dimensional Modeling—Advanced Topics
  • Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading
  • Data Quality—A Key to Success
  • Matching Information to the Classes of Users
  • OLAP in the Data Warehouse
  • Data Warehousing and the Web
  • Data Mining Basics
  • The Physical Design Process
  • Data Warehouse Deployment
  • Growth and Maintenance
  • References
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