Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse [Paperback]

Ramon C. Barquin (Editor), Herbert A. Edelstein (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Data Warehousing Institute Series | Publication Date: July 11, 1996

This book presents a collection of articles and essays written by data warehousing practitioners who have been pioneers in the field. The articles focus on how to plan and design a data warehouse project, capturing the state of the art in an extremely volatile field.* The book is organized into four sections - * Introduction. * Planning the Data Warehouse. * Designing the Data Warehouse. * Some Case Studies. * Covers key data warehousing issues including: developing a strategy, justifying the investment, architectures, optimizing database design, multidimensional models, and metadata repositories. * Includes two real-world case studies of successful data warehousing projects at Harris Semiconductor and the Naval Surface Warfare Center. * Edited by the President of The Data Warehousing Institute, a neutral forum where data warehouse users and vendors come together to consider critical issues. * One chapter is dedicated to helping managers avoid mistakes that can limit the effectiveness of a data warehouse. * Once the data warehouse is in place, this book provides guidance on helping end users make the most of it.

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From the Publisher

A comprehensive survey of key issues associated with planning and designing enterprise data warehouses. Each article was written by an expert in that field.

From the Back Cover

This is a comprehensive survey of key issues associated with planning and designing enterprise data warehouses.Covers the process of implementing a data warehouse end-to-end, from planning a data warehouse, to achieving management support, to implementing metadata repositories that make it easier to access real information, rather than mere data. One chapter is dedicated to helping managers avoid mistakes that can limit the effectiveness of a data warehouse. Once the data warehouse is in place, this book provides guidance on helping end users make the most of it. Two detailed case studies are also included.Information technology managers, and database professionals, including administrators, programmers and designers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (July 11, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132557460
• ISBN-13: 978-0132557467
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,221,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book but not my first choice..., October 5, 2000

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This review is from: Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse (Paperback)

This book is sweet and sour. It is good because it covers many different topics by some very knowledgable authors. But on the other hand, I found it difficult to read. With so many authors, the pace kept changing along with the style. Get this book if you have time to rehash. Otherwise pass over this one for "Data Warehouse Project Managment".