Data warehousing fundamentals a comprehensive guide for IT professionals (Wiley, 2001)
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-502) and index
The compelling need for data warehousing -- Data warehouse : the building blocks -- Trends in data warehousing -- Planning and project management -- Defining the business requirements -- Requirements as the driving force for data warehousing -- The architectural components -- Infrastructure as the foundation for data warehousing -- The significant role of metadata -- Principles of dimensional modeling -- Dimensional modeling : advanced topics -- Data extraction, transformation, and loading -- Data quality : a key to success -- Matching information to the classes of users -- OLAP in the data warehouse -- Data warehousing and the web -- Data mining basics -- The physical design process -- Data warehouse deployment -- Growth and maintenance