Building The Data Warehouse, 4Th Edition

This book provides a high-level, conceptual overview of the major components of data warehouse systems, as well as the core approaches used to design and build data warehouses. Topics covered in this book are methods for handling unstructured data in a data warehouse, storing data across multiple storage media, the pros and cons of relational vs. Multidimensional design, data monitoring and testing. · evolution of decision support systems · the data warehouse environment · the data warehouse and design · granularity in the data warehouse · the data warehouse and technology · the distributed data warehouse · executive information systems and the data warehouse · external data and the data warehouse · migration to the architected environment · the data warehouse and the web · unstructured data and the data warehouse · the really large data warehouse · the relational and the multidimensional models as a basis for database design · data warehouse advanced topics · cost-justi