Research Catalog

Title

Building a data warehouse for decision support / Vidette Poe, Patricia Klauer, and Stephen Brobst.

Author

Poe, Vidette.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall PTR, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Klauer, Patricia.
• Brobst, Stephen.

Description

xli, 285 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• 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; and managing metadata for a production data warehouse.

Subject

• Decision support systems
• Data warehousing

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Let's Start with the Basics -- Ch. 2. Understanding Terms and Technology -- Ch. 3. Understanding Architecture and Infrastructures -- Ch. 4. Critical Success Factors -- Ch. 5. The Decision Support Life Cycle -- Ch. 6. Getting Started with Data Warehouse Development -- Ch. 7. Gathering Data Requirements -- Ch. 8. Data Integration -- Ch. 9. Designing the Database for a Data Warehouse -- Ch. 10. Successful Data Access -- Ch. 11. Training, Support, and Rollout -- Ch. 12. Metadata -- App. Consulting Companies Assisting in the Development of this Book.

ISBN

0137696396

OCLC

ocm38171972

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries