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A guide for database developers, designers, and managers to creating a database tailored for analytic and informational uses, different and separate from a database with the same information to be used in ordinary operations. Deals more with concepts, overall approaches, and issues rather than technical aspects. Among the topics are decision support systems that utilize data warehouses, environment and design, granularity, distributed data, executive information systems, external and unstructured data, and migration to the environment. No mention is made of the first edition or why a second was issued. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


Review
"W.H. Inmon, the father of the data warehouse, provides detailed discussion and analysis of all major issues related to the design and construction of the date warehouse...the second edition of Building the Data Warehouse is revised and expanded to include new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology and update existing topics to reflect the latest thinking." (Fatbrain.com; Ganthead.com, 9/01)


Review
"...revised and expanded to include new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology and update existing topics to reflect the latest thinking." (Fatbrain.com; Ganthead.com, 9/01)


Book Description
Everything you need to know to design, develop, and build your data warehouse

The data warehouse solves the problem of getting information out of legacy systems quickly and efficiently. If designed and built right, data warehouses can provide significant freedom of access to data, thereby delivering enormous benefits to any organization. In this unique handbook, W. H. Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse," provides detailed discussion and analysis of all major issues related to the design and construction of the data ware-house, including granularity of data, partitioning data, metadata, lack of creditability of decision support systems (DSS) data, the system of record, migration, and more.

This Second Edition of Building the Data Warehouse is revised and expanded to include new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology and update existing topics to reflect the latest thinking. It includes a useful review checklist to help evaluate the effectiveness of the design and explains
* How to design and build a data warehouse-including step-by-step guidelines
* Migration to the data warehouse from existing architectures
* Techniques for using the data warehouse to provide companies with a powerful competitive edge
* How to monitor the data warehouse
* The role of the data warehouse in reengineering
* How to get the most from both star joins and data models
* How data marts and OLAP fit with data warehousing techniques
* And much more

Find out what a data warehouse can do for your company and how to build one tailored to your organization's needs in Building the Data Warehouse, Second Edition.


Book Info
Revised and expanded to include new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology and update existing topics to reflect the latest thinking. Paper.


The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
The definitive guide on how to build a data warehouse; it provides a nuts-and-bolts guide to design and development. Expanded to include sections on new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology. Includes a useful review checklist to evaluate the effectiveness of the design and provides a step-by-step plan for migrating to the data warehouse from existing data architectures. Methods described can be used in any computing environment.


From the Back Cover
Everything you need to know to design, develop, and build your data warehouseThe data warehouse solves the problem of getting information out of legacy systems quickly and efficiently. If designed and built right, data warehouses can provide significant freedom of access to data, thereby delivering enormous benefits to any organization. In this unique handbook, W. H. Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse," provides detailed discussion and analysis of all major issues related to the design and construction of the data ware-house, including granularity of data, partitioning data, metadata, lack of creditability of decision support systems (DSS) data, the system of record, migration, and more.This Second Edition of Building the Data Warehouse is revised and expanded to include new techniques and applications of data warehouse technology and update existing topics to reflect the latest thinking. It includes a useful review checklist to help evaluate the effectiveness of the design and explains How to design and build a data warehouse—including step-by-step guidelines Migration to the data warehouse from existing architectures Techniques for using the data warehouse to provide companies with a powerful competitive edge How to monitor the data warehouse The role of the data warehouse in reengineering How to get the most from both star joins and data models How data marts and OLAP fit with data warehousing techniques And much moreFind out what a data warehouse can do for your company and how to build one tailored to your organization's needs in Building the Data Warehouse, Second Edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Since it was first published in 1990, W. H. Inmon's Building the Data Warehouse has become the bible of data warehousing -- the first and best introduction to the subject. A lot has changed in data warehousing technology since the last edition appeared in 1996, and this latest volume is completely revised to reflect exciting new techniques and applications, update existing topics, and examine data marts, operational data stores, and the corporate information factory. In this Third Edition, Inmon explains what a data warehouse is (and isn't), why it's needed, how it works, and how the traditional data warehouse can be integrated with new technologies, including the Web, to provide enhanced customer service and support. He also addresses the trade-offs between normalized data warehouses and dimensional data marts.

FROM THE CRITICS

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Revised to reflect new techniques and applications since the 1996 edition, this third edition explains what a data warehouse is and how it works, and tells how the traditional data warehouse can be integrated with new technologies including the Web. Discussion encompasses techniques for customer sales and support on-and offline, data warehousing for decision support, integration of data warehouses with ERP systems, and tradeoffs between normalized data warehouses and dimensional data marts. Inmon has written many books on database management and data warehousing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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