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Data warehousing for dummies / by Thomas C. Hammergren and Alan R. Simon

Author
Hammergren, Tom
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Simon, Alan, 1958-
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Contents
Data Warehousing For Dummies® 2nd Edition; About the Author; Dedication; Author's Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I The Data Warehouse: Home for Your Data Assets; Chapter 1 What's in a Data Warehouse?; The Data Warehouse: A Place for Your Data Assets; Data Warehousing: A Working Definition; A Brief History of Data Warehousing; Is a Bigger Data Warehouse a Better Data Warehouse?; Realizing That a Data Warehouse (Usually) Has a Historical Perspective; It's Data Warehouse, Not Data Dump; Chapter 2 What Should You Expect from Your Data Warehouse?, Using the Data Warehouse to Make Better Business DecisionsFinding Data at Your Fingertips; Facilitating Communications with Data Warehousing; Facilitating Business Change with Data Warehousing; Chapter 3 Have It Your Way: The Structure of a Data Warehouse; Ensuring That Your Implementations Are Unique; Classifying the Data Warehouse; To Centralize or Distribute, That Is the Question; Chapter 4 Data Marts: Your Retail Data Outlet; Architectural Approaches to Data Marts; What to Put in a Data Mart; Data mart or data warehouse?; Implementing a Data Mart -- Quickly, Part II Data Warehousing TechnologyChapter 5 Relational Databases and Data Warehousing; The Old Way of Thinking; The New Way of Thinking; Designing Your Relational Database for Data Warehouse Usage; Relational Products and Data Warehousing; Chapter 6 Specialty Databases and Data Warehousing; Multidimensional Databases; Horizontal versus Vertical Data Storage Management; Data Warehouse Appliances; Data Warehousing Specialty Database Products; Chapter 7 Stuck in the Middle with You: Data Warehousing Middleware; What Is Middleware?; Middleware for Data Warehousing, What Each Middleware Service Does for YouSpecialty Middleware Services; Vendors with Middleware Products for Data Warehousing; Part III Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing; Chapter 8 An Intelligent Look at Business Intelligence; The Main Categories of Business Intelligence; Other Types of Business Intelligence; Business Intelligence Architecture and Data Warehousing; Chapter 9 Simple Database Querying and Reporting; What Functionality Does a Querying and Reporting Tool Provide?; Is This All You Need?; Designing a Relational Database for Querying and Reporting Support, and Vendors with Querying and Reporting Products for Data WarehousingChapter 10 Business Analysis (OLAP); What Is Business Analysis?; The OLAP Acronym Parade; First, an Editorial; Business Analysis (OLAP) Features: An Overview; Data Warehousing Business Analysis Vendors; Chapter 11 Data Mining: Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Mine We Go; Data Mining in Specific Business Missions; Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence; Data Mining and Statistics; Some Vendors with Data Mining Products; Chapter 12 Dashboards and Scorecards; Dashboard and Scorecard Principles
Summary
Offers advice on designing and selecting data warehousing techniques, analysing data sources, selecting data to be stored, and facilitating the recall and distribution of information.
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ISBN
9780470482902 (electronic bk.)
0470482907 (electronic bk.)
9780470482926 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Digital Editions)
0470482923 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Digital Editions)
9780470482919 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket Reader)
0470482915 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket Reader)
9780470407479 (pbk.)
0470407476 (pbk.)
Note
Includes index.
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