Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

Vidette Poe (Author), Stephen Brobst (Author), Patricia Klauer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

76963-8 The start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to data warehousing. In Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, Second Edition, a team of the world's leading experts presents a start-to-finish, state-of-the-art guide to designing and implementing data warehouses. You'll find up-to-the-minute solutions-oriented recommendations for the entire data warehouse development lifecycle, including: *Best practices for requirements gathering and identifying business objectives. *Critical success factors-why and how they affect the success of your project. *Planning, scoping, and managing your data warehouse project. *Managing metadata for a production data warehouse. Learn how to address one of the most critical, neglected issues in data warehouse deployment: data integration. Discover: *Proven data analysis techniques to efficiently consolidate and integrate data across business units and divisions *The analysis needed for all of the phases of data integration, including data sourcing, consolidation, conversion, and population. *The added value that data integration brings to your data warehouse.This completely revamped second edition also includes detailed new case studies showing how four leading companies have planned, implemented, and profited from data warehousing. Whether you're a database professional, analyst, architect, or DSS user, Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support' delivers the answers you need today.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This is a great book on Data Warehousing for project managers, database designers and administrators, programmers, analysts, and systems and data architects. Beginning with the basics, it covers:

• The difference between operational and analytical processing;
• Architecture and infrastructure for the data warehouse, and examples of real-world implementations within corporations; and
• The "Decision Support Life Cycle" -- from gathering requirements, modeling the data, and designing the database, to application development, implementation, and staff training.

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From the Publisher

This book provides practical technical information and development guidelines for building a data warehouse for decision support processing. The author is a recognized expert in the field. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 Sub edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137696396
• ISBN-13: 978-0137696390
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,284,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DW / DSS Development Common Sense and Practical Advice, June 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

As someone who has been architecting, managing and implementing Data Warehouses and DSS since the beginning of the 80's I can conclude that this book is a very good introduction to Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support. I think it would also serve as an excellent introductory book for Business Executives and DW / DSS Project Managers / Programme Managers alike. As it highlights certain pitfalls and tips from the trenches that are: not obvious to the uninitiated; avoidable; or costly then this is book is worth reading - rather than skimming through.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is the book you give to people who say "a data what?", June 14, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support (Hardcover)

Ms. Poe has written an excellent book on the data warehouse and what it can do for you. She tackles questions like why do I need another database, what is the difference between a tactical and strategic data source. She does discuss star schemas but not in so much detail that you could build one. In fact, if you actually are building a data warehouse yourself, look elsewhere. I recommend "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" by Kimball. Ms. Poe sent me an e-mail that indicated her next effort would be in an unrelated field. I see that Amazon does not have a discount on this book but at some trade shows they give this book away for free. After all, it does sell the data warehouse concept

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's more like an experience report than a book, June 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Building A Data Warehouse for Decision Support (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

First I'm supprised to see the big font size used in this book, which makes the book heavy in weight light in content. Although it does make a good good picture of building a data warehouse from application point of view, it failed to say any thing about the real stuff of decision support, such as associate rule. The readers are also expecting a list of references for futher reading, but the book offered nothing! I don't recommend this book to anyone.