Building The Data Warehouse (4th Ed.)

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.

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Evolution of Decision Support Systems
Chapter 2: The Data Warehouse Environment
Chapter 3: The Data Warehouse and Design
Chapter 4: Granularity in the Data Warehouse
Chapter 5: The Data Warehouse and Technology
Chapter 6: The Distributed Data Warehouse
Chapter 7: Executive Information Systems and the Data Warehouse
Chapter 8: External Data and the Data Warehouse
Chapter 9: Migration to the Architected Environment
Chapter 10: The Data Warehouse and the Web
Chapter 11: Unstructured Data and the Data Warehouse
Chapter 12: The Really Large Data Warehouse
Chapter 13: The Relational and the Multidimensional Models as a Basis for Database Design
Chapter 14: Data Warehouse Advanced Topics
Chapter 15: Cost-Justification and Return on Investment for a Data Warehouse
Chapter 16: The Data Warehouse and the ODS
Chapter 17: Corporate Information Compliance and Data Warehousing
Chapter 18: The End-User Community
Chapter 19: Data Warehouse Design Review Checklist
Glossary
References
Index

Market Description :
· IT, Database, and Data Warehouse Managers and Developers

About Author :
W.H. Inmon is the acknowledged "Father of Data Warehousing" and a partner in www.billinmon.com, a Website for information on data warehousing and related technologies. He has written more than 40 books on database and data warehousing technologies, and is a frequent speaker at major conferences.