Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition)

This is a great book on Data Warehousing for project managers, database designers and administrators, programmers, analysts, and systems and data architects. Beginning with the basics, it covers:

• The difference between operational and analytical processing;
• Architecture and infrastructure for the data warehouse, and examples of real-world implementations within corporations; and
• The "Decision Support Life Cycle" -- from gathering requirements, modeling the data, and designing the database, to application development, implementation, and staff training.