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Building the data warehouse / W.H. Inmon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Indianapolis, IN : Wiley, 2005Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xxviii, 543 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780764599446
  • 0764599445
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.74 IN.B 2005 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.D3 I5372 2005
Contents:
Evolution of Decision Support Systems -- The Data Warehouse Environment -- The Data Warehouse and Design -- Granularity in the Data Warehouse -- The Data Warehouse and Technology -- The Distributed Data Warehouse -- Executive Information Systems and the Data Warehouse -- External Data and the Data Warehouse -- Migration to the Architected Environment -- The Data Warehouse and the Web -- Unstructured Data and the Data Warehouse -- The Really Large Data Warehouse -- The Relational and the Multidimensional Models as a Basis for Database Design -- Data warehouse Advanced Topics -- Cost-Justification and Return on Investment for a Data Warehouse -- The Data Warehouse and the ODS -- Corporate Information Compliance and Data Warehousing -- The End-User Community -- Data Warehouse Design Review Checklist.
Summary: "Data warehouses provide a much-needed strategy for organizations to collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of business data. As businesses expand both brick-and-mortar and online activities, the field of data warehousing has become increasingly important. Since it was first published in 1990, W.H. Inmon's Building the Data Warehouse has been the bible of data warehousing - it is the book that launched the data warehousing industry and it remains the preeminent introduction to the subject. This new edition covers the latest developments with this technology, many of which have been pioneered by Inmon himself."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-516) and index.

Evolution of Decision Support Systems -- The Data Warehouse Environment -- The Data Warehouse and Design -- Granularity in the Data Warehouse -- The Data Warehouse and Technology -- The Distributed Data Warehouse -- Executive Information Systems and the Data Warehouse -- External Data and the Data Warehouse -- Migration to the Architected Environment -- The Data Warehouse and the Web -- Unstructured Data and the Data Warehouse -- The Really Large Data Warehouse -- The Relational and the Multidimensional Models as a Basis for Database Design -- Data warehouse Advanced Topics -- Cost-Justification and Return on Investment for a Data Warehouse -- The Data Warehouse and the ODS -- Corporate Information Compliance and Data Warehousing -- The End-User Community -- Data Warehouse Design Review Checklist.

"Data warehouses provide a much-needed strategy for organizations to collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of business data. As businesses expand both brick-and-mortar and online activities, the field of data warehousing has become increasingly important. Since it was first published in 1990, W.H. Inmon's Building the Data Warehouse has been the bible of data warehousing - it is the book that launched the data warehousing industry and it remains the preeminent introduction to the subject. This new edition covers the latest developments with this technology, many of which have been pioneered by Inmon himself."--Jacket.

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