Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse




Auerbach Publications | ISBN- 978-1-4200-6462-9 | English | PDF | 4.33 MB RAR Compressed | 330 Pages | No Password

Introfuction
Purpose
Te purpose of this book is answer the question: “How?” How can a data ware-house team build a data warehouse, a data warehouse that actually works? It’s very easy to build a data warehouse that incorporates all the Data Warehousing concepts and principles, and, yet, is useless. But, how to build a data warehouse that provides the answers needed by all the data warehouse customers, when they need it? Tat’s difcult.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 data warehouse, Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse presents the success factors that should be achieved along with the failure factors that should be avoided. Te Data Warehouse Philoso-phy presents, in Chapter 2, the concepts and principles that are the foundation of every data warehouse. In the chapters following, as data warehousing methods are presented and explained,
these methods are presented within the context of the concepts and principles in the Data Warehouse Philosophy. By doing so, the Data Warehouse Philosophy provides a consistent focus.

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