Data Warehouse (4th Edition)

Author: (USA) Yin Meng
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Data warehouses provide businesses and organizations with the necessary strategies for collecting, storing, and analyzing vast amounts of business data. As business activities continue to grow, the field of data warehousing has become increasingly important. This book is hailed as the "bible" of data warehousing. Since its first publication in 1990, it has not only driven the development of the data warehousing industry but also remains an excellent introductory read to this field to this day. The 4th edition covers new technologies in data warehousing, maintaining its pioneering position in this field. By exploring the basic components of data warehouse systems, readers will experience updates in data warehouse design methods; various migration strategies for data warehouses, as well as techniques applied in loading, indexing, and data management. This book provides readers with the latest advancements in the field of data warehousing. The new content added in this book includes:
- Methods for processing unstructured data in data warehouses
- Methods for storing data on various storage media
- A comparison between relational database design and multidimensional database design
- How to measure return on investment when planning data warehouse projects
- Exploring more advanced research topics, including data monitoring and testing
This book systematically covers the fundamental concepts, basic principles, as well as the methods and processes for establishing data warehouses. The main content includes:
- The development of Decision Support Systems (DSS)
- The architecture of the data warehouse environment
- Data warehouse design
- Data warehouse granularity partitioning
- Data warehouse technologies
- Distributed data warehouses
- The relationship between EIS systems and data warehouses
- The relationship between external and unstructured data and data warehouses
- Data loading issues
- The relationship between data warehouses and the Web
- The relationship between ERP and data warehouses
- Review topics for data warehouse design
This book, written by the father of data warehousing, is the authoritative work on data warehousing. It can serve as a textbook for graduate students in related fields and also as a guide for researchers, developers, and managers in the data warehousing field.