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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

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