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The Essential Guide to Data Warehousing: (Essential Guides (Prentice Hall))

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This is the only data warehousing book that speaks directly to business leaders and data warehousing newcomers -- explaining all the benefits, risks, technologies, and processes with remarkable clarity and insight. Consultant Lou Agosta shows how data warehousing can dramatically reduce business uncertainty by transforming a tidal wave of information into knowledge that can be acted upon. Understand the quantitative business case for data warehousing, including its potential to reduce supply chain management costs, enhance customer cross-selling, and strengthen brand relationships. Drill down to specific recommendations on aligning your business and technical goals for data warehousing; then review the entire process of implementation, from planning and design through deployment and performance optimization. Finally, understand new innovations, such as metadata, and their impact on the data warehouse -- and the enterprise.

Table of Contents:
I. FUNDAMENTAL COMMITMENTS. 1. Basic Data Warehousing Distinctions. An Architecture, Not A Product. The One Fundamental Question. The One Question—The Thousand and One Answers…. The First Distinction: Transaction and Decision Support System. Data Warehouse Sources of Data. Dimensions. The Data Warehouse Fact. The Data Warehouse Model of the Business: Alignment. The Data Cube. Aggregation. Data Warehouse Professional Roles. The Data Warehouse Process Model. Summary. 2. A Short History of Data. In the Beginning…. Fast Forward to Modern Times. The Very Idea of Decision Support. From Mainframes To PCs. The Promise of the Relational Database. Data Every Which Way. From Client-Server to Thin Client Computing. Why Will Things Be Different This Time? The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same. Model of Technology Dynamics. Summary. 3. Justifying Data Warehousing. Competition for Limited Resources. An Integrated Business and Technology Solution. Economic Value, Not Business Benefits. Selling the Data Warehouse. The Reporting Data Warehouse: Running Fewer Errands. The Supply Chain Warehouse. The Cross-Selling Warehouse. The Total Quality Management Data Warehouse. The Profitability Warehouse. Data Warehousing Case Vignettes in the Press. Summary. 4. Data Warehousing Project Management. Simulating a Rational Design Process. Managing Project Requirements. Managing the Development of Architecture. Managing Project Schedule. Managing Project Quality. Managing Project Risks. Managing Project Documentation. Managing the Project Development Team. Managing Project Management. Summary. II. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. 5. Business Design: The Unified Representations of The Customer and Product. The Critical Path: Alignment. A Unified Representation of the Customer. Data Scrubbing. The Cross-Functional Team. Hierarchical Structure. Customer Demographics. A Unified Representation of the Product. Data Marts: Between Prototype and Retrotype. Summary. 6. Total Data Warehouse Quality. The Information Product. Data Quality as Data Integrity. Intrinsic Qualities. Ambiguity. Timeliness and Consistency in Time. Security. Secondary Qualities. Credibility. Quality Data, Quality Reports. Information Quality, System Quality. Performance. Availability. Scalability. Functionality. Maintainability. Reinterpreting the Past. Summary. 7. Data Warehousing Technical Design. Use case Scenarios. Abstract Data Types and Concrete Data Dimensions. Data Normalization: Relevance and Limitations. Dimensions and Facts. Primary and Foreign Keys. Design for Performance: Technical Interlude. Summary. 8. Data Warehouse Construction Technologies: SQL. The Relational Database: A Dominant Design. Twelve Principles. Thinking in Sets: Declarative and Procedural Approaches. Data Definition Language. Indexing: B-Tree. Indexing: Hashing. Indexing: Bitmap. Indexing Rules of Thumb. Data Manipulation Language. Data Control Language. Stored Procedures. User-Defined Functions. Summary. 9. Data Warehouse Construction Technologies: Transaction Management. The Case For Transaction Management: The ACID Test. The Logical Unit of Work. Two-tier and Three-tier Architectures. Distributed Architecture. Middleware: Remote Procedure Call Model. Middleware: Message-Oriented Middleware. The Long Transaction. Summary. III. OPERATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS. 10. Data Warehouse Operation Technologies: Data Management. Database Administration. Backing Up the Data (in the Ever-Narrowing Backup Window). Recovering the Database: Crash Recovery. Recovering the Database: Version (Point-in-Time) Recovery. Recovering the Database: Roll-Forward Recovery. Managing Lots of Data: Acres of Disk. Managing Lots of Data: System-Controlled Storage. Managing Lots of Data: Automated Tape Robots. RAID Configurations. Summary. 11. Data Warehousing Performance. Performance Parameters. Denormalization for Performance. Aggregation For Performance. Buffering For Performance. Partitioning For Performance. Parallel Processing: Shared Memory. Parallel Processing: Shared Disk. Parallel Processing: Shared Nothing. Data Placement: Colocated Join. Summary. 12. Data Warehousing Operations: The Information Supply Chain. A Process, Not an Application. The Great Chain of Data. Partitioning: Divide and Conquer. Determining Temporal Granularity. Aggregate Up To the Data Warehouse. Aggregates in the Data Warehouse. The Debate about the Data Warehouse Data Model. The Presentation Layer. Integrated Decision Support Processes. Summary. 13. Metadata and Metaphor. Metaphors Alter Our Perceptions. A New Technology, a New Metaphor. Metadata are Metaphorical. Semantics. Forms of Data Normalization and Denormalization. Metadata Architecture. Metadata Repository. Models and Metamodels. Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS). Metadata: A Computing Grand Challenge. Summary. 14. Aggregation. On-line Aggregation, Real-Time Aggravation. The Manager's Rule of Thumb. A Management Challenge. Aggregate Navigation. Information Density. Canonical Aggregates. Summary. IV. APPLICATIONS AND SPECULATIONS. 15. OLAP Technologies. OLAP Architecture. Cubes, Hypercubes, and Multicubes. OLAP Features. The Strengths of OLAP. Limitations. Summary. 16. Data Warehousing and the Web. The Business Case. The Web as a Delivery System. Key Internet Technologies. Web Harvesting: The Web as the Ultimate Data Store. The Business Intelligence Portal. Summary. 17. Data Mining. Data Mining and Data Warehousing. Data Mining Enabling Technologies. Data Mining Methods. Data Mining: Management Perspective. Summary. 18. Breakdowns: What Can Go Wrong. The Short List. The Leaning Cube of Data. The Data Warehouse Garage Sale. Will the Future be Like the Past? Model Becomes Obsolete. Missing Variables. Obsessive Washing. Combinatorial Explosion. Technology and Business Misalignment. Becoming a Commodity. Summary. 19. Future Prospects. Enterprise Server Skills to be in High Demand. The Cross-Fictional, Oops, -Functional Team. Governance. The Operational Data Warehouse. Request for Update. The Web Opportunity: Agent Technology. The Future of Data Warehousing. Summary. Glossary. References. Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780130850874
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 234 mm
  • ISBN-10: 013085087X
  • Height: 178 mm
  • No of Pages: 528
  • Series Title: Essential Guides (Prentice Hall)
  • Weight: 853 gr


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