Data Warehousing Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide for IT ProfessionalsEine Einführung in das Data Warehousing - speziell für IT-Fachleute, die sich in dieses Gebiet einarbeiten wollen. Behandelt werden alle wichtigen Themen wie Planung, Systemvoraussetzungen, Architektur, Infrastruktur, Design, Datenaufbereitung, Implementation und Wartung. Der Stoff wird anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, Fallstudien aus der Industrie und Übungsaufgaben anschaulich und nachvollziehbar dargestellt. Autor Paulraj Ponniah verfügt über 25 Jahre Erfahrung in Design und Implementation von Datenbanken und Data Warehousing Anwendungen. Er hat u.a. so namhafte Unternehmen wie Texaco, Sotheby's, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, NA Philips und Bantam-Doubleday-Dell betreut. "Data Warehousing Fundamentals" - ein topaktuelles Buch zu einem brisanten Thema. |
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... vendors use the two terms synonymously. Some make distinctions that are not clear enough. At this point, it would be worthwhile for us to examine these two terms and take our position. Writing in a leading trade magazine in 1998, Bill ...
... vendors use the two terms synonymously. Some make distinctions that are not clear enough. At this point, it would be worthwhile for us to examine these two terms and take our position. Writing in a leading trade magazine in 1998, Bill ...
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... data warehouse. If your organization does business with the customers on a. Figure 2-6 Data warehouse: building blocks or components. Proliferationoftools Vendor mergers Support for larger DWs. OVERVIEW OF THE COMPONENTS 29.
... data warehouse. If your organization does business with the customers on a. Figure 2-6 Data warehouse: building blocks or components. Proliferationoftools Vendor mergers Support for larger DWs. OVERVIEW OF THE COMPONENTS 29.
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... vendors. The data warehouse must be open to different tools. Most of the data warehouses employ relational database management systems. Many of the data warehouses also employ multidimensional database management systems. Data extracted ...
... vendors. The data warehouse must be open to different tools. Most of the data warehouses employ relational database management systems. Many of the data warehouses also employ multidimensional database management systems. Data extracted ...
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... vendors have flooded the market with numerous products. Vendor solutions and products run the gamut of data warehousing: data modeling, data acquisition, data quality, data analysis, metadata, and so on. The buyer's guide published by ...
... vendors have flooded the market with numerous products. Vendor solutions and products run the gamut of data warehousing: data modeling, data acquisition, data quality, data analysis, metadata, and so on. The buyer's guide published by ...
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... vendors have now added features to assist you in building data warehouses using these DBMSs. Packaged solutions have ... Vendor Business Services Manufacturing 77 75 74 69 66 66 65 65 61 57 54 Source: 1999 Data Warehousing Salary Survey ...
... vendors have now added features to assist you in building data warehouses using these DBMSs. Packaged solutions have ... Vendor Business Services Manufacturing 77 75 74 69 66 66 65 65 61 57 54 Source: 1999 Data Warehousing Salary Survey ...
Contents
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Part 2 PLANNING AND REQUIREMENTS | 63 |
Part 3 ARCHITECTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE | 127 |
Part 4 DATA DESIGN AND DATA PREPARATION | 203 |
Part 5 INFORMATION ACCESS AND DELIVERY | 315 |
Part 6 IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE | 429 |
Appendix A Project Life Cycle Steps and Checklists | 493 |
Appendix B Critical Factors for Success | 497 |
Appendix C Guidelines for Evaluating Vendor Solutions | 499 |
References | 501 |
Glossary | 503 |
Index | 511 |
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Page 349 - Processing (OLAP) is a category of software technology that enables analysts, managers, and executives to gain insight into data through fast, consistent, interactive access to a wide variety of possible views of information that has been transformed from raw data to reflect the real dimensionality of the enterprise as understood by the user.
Page 18 - Inmon identified four characteristics of a data warehouse, which are represented in his formal definition: "... a data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated, non-volatile and time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions.
Page 412 - Trees are normally drawn upside down, with the root at the top and the leaves at the bottom.
Page 501 - Kimball, Ralph, and Richard Merz. The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the WebEnabled Data Warehouse. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Page 500 - Discovering Data Mining: From Concept to Implementation, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998.
Page 53 - It completes the process by providing users with knowledge to use the right information, at the right time, and at the right place.
Page 501 - Managing the Data Warehouse: Practical Techniques for Monitoring Operations and Performances, Administering Data and Tools, Managing Change and Growth, New York: Wiley, 1997.
Page 465 - ... but be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.
Page 5 - Web-enabled analysis tools enables merchants to gain insights into their customer base, manage inventories more tightly, and keep the right products in front of the right people at the right place at the right time.