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Data Warehouse: Practical Advice from the Experts, 1/e

Joyce Bischoff, Bischoff Consulting, Inc.
Ted Alexander, The Praxium Group

Published April, 1997 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1997, 428 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-577370-9
$49.99


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A practical handbook for the Data Warehouse that is designed to prepare people to progress toward providing any data anywhere, anytime.

Data Warehouse: Practical Advice from the Experts will help technical managers, project managers, and members of data warehouse project teams in all aspects of planning, designing, developing, implementing, and administering a data warehouse. It is a practical book based on real-world experiences in building hundreds of data warehouses since each chapter is written by an internationally recognized authority in that particular field.



A practical book based on real-world experiences in building hundreds of data warehouses rather than a purely theoretical approach.

  • Provides practical, hands-on advice on building an effective data warehouse.
  • This is the first book to assemble so many experts on data warehousing.
  • Provides leading edge technology.




I. GETTING STARTED.
    1. Introduction.
    2. A Renaissance for Information Technology.
    3. Organizational and Cultural Issues.
    4. Working Effectively with End Users.
    5. The Seven Deadly Sins.
    6. Real-World Data Warehousing: The Management Challenge.

II. PLANNING THE DATA WAREHOUSE.
    7. A Technical Architecture for Data Warehousing.
    8. Creating a Business Case.
    9. A Flexible Approach to Developing A Data Warehouse.
III. DATA: THE CRITICAL ISSUE.
    10. Data Quality.
    11. Metadata.
    12. The Role of a Directory/Catalog.
    13. Data Transformation.
IV. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION.
    14. Physical Design.
    15. Multidimensional OLAP Versus Relational OLAP.
    16. Data Replication in a Global Warehousing Environment.
    17. VLDBS and Parallelism.
    18. Implementing a Warehouse in a Multiserver Environment Using Parallel Technology.
    19. Middleware: Gluing the Warehouse Together.
    20. Design Reviews for the Data Warehouse.
    21. The Virtual Data Warehouse.
    22. Operational Data Stores: Developing an Effective Strategy.
    23. Data Mining.
V. DATA WAREHOUSE ADMINISTRATION.
    24. Systems Administration.
    25. Database Administration Issues in a Heterogeneous Environment.
    26. Security in the Data Warehouse.
    27. Selecting End-User Tools.
VI. TRENDS.
    28. Trends in Data Warehousing.
    Glossary.
    Author Profiles.
    Index.

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