Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition) - Hardcover

Poe, Vidette; Klauer, Patricia; Brobst, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137696396 ISBN 13: 9780137696390

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

Completely revised, expanded, and updated, this second edition gives extensive new coverage of data integration, management, indexing, cleansing, and transformation. The book covers powerful new multi-dimensional front-ends and conversion tools and gives detailed coverage of lifecycle issues.

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: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0137696396
• ISBN 13: 9780137696390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 285