- Hardcover: 340 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (17 Nov 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0137696396
- ISBN-13: 978-0137696390
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 18 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,634,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This new edition features chapters on data integration, data management, and data cleansing and transformation. Case studies are be added, and there is an updated product-specific appendix. A CD-ROM is included that contains demo versions of various data warehousing tools.
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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.
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Format: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.
Format: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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
DW / DSS Development Common Sense and Practical Advice
16 Jun 1999
Format: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
This is the book you give to people who say "a data what?"
14 Jun 1997
Format: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
It's more like an experience report than a book
12 Jun 1998
Format: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.
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