Oracle 10g Data Warehousing (Paperback)

by Lilian Hobbs PhD (Author), Susan Hillson MS in CIS Boston University (Author), Shilpa Lawande (Author), Pete Smith (Author) "One of the challenges of the post-dot-com bubble era that many organizations are facing is being asked to deliver more with little or no budget..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

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"Whether you are designing a large or small data warehouse, or looking for tips on how to improve performance using Oracle Database 10g, this book will provide you with advice and examples you can follow. It also includes thorough coverage of the data warehouse features in Oracle Database 10g, and the tools in Oracle Application Server 10g." -Chuck Rozwat, Executive Vice President, Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation

Book Description
New edition of successful book with Oracle employees and consultants as authors.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 872 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555583229
• ISBN-13: 978-1555583224
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #608,487 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Read the standard Oracle documentation instead, February 6, 2005

By	Moris - See all my reviews

No need to buy this book, just have a look
at the Oracle Database 10g Documentation.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of Oracle 10g Data Warehousing, October 10, 2005

By	S. Shah (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Lilian Hobbs and company provide a good overview of the data warehousing capabilities of Oracle 10g.

In particular, I like the use of EM to manage all aspects of defining the schema and managing the dimensional model including creating an OLAP cube.

Ond of the reviewers mentioned that there is no downloadable source. That is not correct. It is available from www.lilianhobbs.com as mentioned in the book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, but frustated by errors and lack of source, April 1, 2005

By	sanjuro (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews

I'm new to both Oracle and Data Warehousing and I haven't found many Data Warehousing texts specific to Oracle. I was hoping this would not only be a source for an architecture and design overview, but I also hoped to setup and work through the examples I saw in text as I perused it in the book store. I mean, no one would publish a modern computer book without providing downloadable source, would they? Maybe I missed something, but there is no CD, no reference in the text, and I checked the publishers web site. Found nothing! Especially for a topic like Data Warehousing, where learning to manage large amounts of data is the point of the whole subject, I found it amazing that no sample data is provided.

Along this same line, the Appendix that shows the schema setup for the example database has errors in the script code, plus the steps are out of order. Apparently the authors expect you to use the Enterprise Manager to setup your database. The setup scripts appear to be an afterthought, and do not appear to be edited. If the authors had provided downloadable scripts and data, perhaps they would have been forced to work through this setup themselves and would have avoid this problem.

I'm building sample data, and reading through the text, but for $60.00 I expected more.