Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse

Informationen zum Autor Silvers! Fon Klappentext Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse provides a cohesive and holistic approach to building a data warehouse. Written from the perspective of having created a successful data warehouse! as well as a failed one! the author presents the success factors that should be achieved as well as the failure factors that should be avoided. He delves into the philosophy! concepts! and principles! which are the foundation of every data warehouse! and shows how to define a warehouse's scope in addition to providing an understanding of the details needed to build and maintain one. Zusammenfassung Offering the perspective of a data warehouse, as well as that of a failed one, the author details those factors that must be accomplished and those that are best avoided. He looks at areas of a data warehouse individually and in sequence, showing how each piece becomes a working part of the whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Big Picture: An Introduction to Data Warehousing. Data Warehouse Philosophy. Source System Analysis. Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Database Design. Data Acquisition and Integration. Business Intelligence Reporting. Data Quality. Metadata. Data Warehouse Customers. Future of Data Warehousing: An Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Fon Silvers, Fon (Data Warehouse Analyst and Developer Silvers, Silvers Fon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2008
• EAN: 9781420064629
• ISBN: 978-1-4200-6462-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Software Engineering, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, computer science, Databases, Network Management, COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management