(Ebook) Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse by Fon Silvers ISBN 9781420064629, 9780849379437, 9780849393839, 9780849393853, 9781420060522, 9781420064742, 0849379431, 0849393833, 084939385X

(Ebook) Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse by Fon Silvers ISBN 9781420064629, 9780849379437, 9780849393839, 9780849393853, 9781420060522, 9781420064742, 0849379431, 0849393833, 084939385X

Based on a foundation of industry-accepted principles, this work provides an easy-to-follow approach that is cohesive and holistic. By offering the perspective of a successful data warehouse, as well as that of a failed one, this workdetails those factors that must be accomplished and those that are best avoided.

Organized to logically progress from more general to specific information, this valuable guide:

• Presents areas of a data warehouse individually and in sequence, showing how each piece becomes a working part of the whole
• Examines the concepts and principles that are at the foundation of every successful data warehouse
• Explains how to recognize and attend to problematic gaps in an established data warehouse
• Provides the big picture perspective that planners and executives require

Those considering the planning and creation of a data warehouse, as well as those who’ve already built one will profit greatly from the insights garnered by the author during his years of creating and gathering information on state-of-the-art data warehouses that are accessible, convenient, and reliable.