Fundamentals of Data Warehouses [Hardcover]

Matthias Jarke (Author), Maurizio Lenzerini (Author), Yannis Vassiliou (Author), Panos Vassiliadis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 17, 2003

This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and the best current practices of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimization, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimization. A conceptual framework is presented by which the architecture and quality of a data warehouse can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata management combined with advanced techniques from databases, business modeling, and artificial intelligence.

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Data warehouses have captured the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But the design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and best current practice of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimization, update propagation, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimization. Furthermore, it presents a conceptual framework by which the architecture and quality of data warehouse efforts can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata management combined with advanced techniques from databases, business modeling, and artificial intelligence. For researchers and database professionals in academia and industry, the book offers an excellent introduction to the issues of quality and metadata usage in the context of data warehouses. In the second edition, the significant advances of the state of the practice in the last three years are discussed and the conceptual framework is extended to a full methodology for data warehouse design, illustrated by several industrial case studies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 221 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2nd, rev. and extended ed. edition (January 17, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540420894
• ISBN-13: 978-3540420897
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,776,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)