Ponniah, Paulraj. <br/><br/>
Data warehousing fundamentals :  a comprehensive guide for IT professionals / 
Paulraj Ponniah. 
 - New York :  Wiley,  �2001. 
 - 1 online resource (xxv, 516 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-502) and index. 
<br/><br/>The Compelling Need for Data Warehousing -- Data Warehouse: The Building Blocks -- Trends in Data Warehousing -- Planning and Project Management -- Defining the Business Requirements -- Requirements as the Driving Force for Data Warehousing --The Architectural Components -- Infrastructure as the Foundation for Data Warehousing -- The Significant Role of Metadata -- Principles of Dimensional Modeling -- Dimensional Modeling: Advanced Topics -- Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading -- Data Quality: A Key to Success -- Matching Information to the Classes of Users -- OLAP in the Data Warehouse -- Data Warehousing and the Web -- Data Mining Basics -- The Physical Design Process -- Data Warehouse Deployment -- Growth and Maintenance -- Appendix A. Project Life Cycle Steps and Checklists -- Appendix B. Critical Factors for Success -- Appendix C. Guidelines for Evaluating Vendor Solutions. 
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<br/><br/> Geared to IT professionals eager to get into the all-important field of data warehousing, this book explores all topics needed by those who design and implement data warehouses. Readers will learn about planning requirements, architecture, infrastructure, data preparation, information delivery, implementation, and maintenance. They'll also find a wealth of industry examples garnered from the author's 25 years of experience in designing and implementing databases and data warehouse applications for major corporations. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[Place of publication not identified] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0471463892 9780471463894 0471412546 9780471412540 0471221627 9780471221623 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1002/0471221627  doi 9780471412540 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>CL0500000044  Safari Books Online 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Data warehousing.<br/>Information Storage and Retrieval<br/>Entrep�ots de donn�ees (Informatique)<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Information Management.<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Knowledge Capital.<br/>Data warehousing.<br/>Data warehousing<br/>Data-Warehouse-Konzept<br/>Data warehouse.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Database data warehousing technologies. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA76.9.D37  / P66 2001eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.4/038/0285574