Data Warehousing in the Real World: A Practical Guide for Building Decision Support Systems, 1e

Data warehouses are the primary means by which businesses can gain competitive advantage through analyzing and using the information stored in their computerized systems. Data Warehousing in the Real World provides comprehensive guidelines and techniques for the delivery of decision support solutions using open-systems data warehouses. Written by practitioners for practitioners, this book describes each stage of the implementation process in detail. Read this book to:

• Learn the fundamentals of designing large scale data warehouses using relational technology
• Take advantage of product-independent comprehensive guidelines which cover all the issues you need to take into account when planning and building a data warehouse
• Apply to your own situation the examples of real-life solutions taken from a variety of different business sectors
• Make use of the templates for project-plans, system architectures and database designs