Data Warehousing Fundamentals for IT Professionals, 2/e (Hardcover)

Cutting-edge content and guidance from a data warehousing expert—now expanded to reflect field trends

Data warehousing has revolutionized the way businesses in a wide variety of industries perform analysis and make strategic decisions. Since the first edition of Data Warehousing Fundamentals, numerous enterprises have implemented data warehouse systems and reaped enormous benefits. Many more are in the process of doing so. Now, this new, revised edition covers the essential fundamentals of data warehousing and business intelligence as well as significant recent trends in the field.

The author provides an enhanced, comprehensive overview of data warehousing together with in-depth explanations of critical issues in planning, design, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. IT professionals eager to get into the field will gain a clear understanding of techniques for data extraction from source systems, data cleansing, data transformations, data warehouse architecture and infrastructure, and the various methods for information delivery.

This practical Second Edition highlights the areas of data warehousing and business intelligence where high-impact technological progress has been made. Discussions on developments include data marts, real-time information delivery, data visualization, requirements gathering methods, multi-tier architecture, OLAP applications, Web clickstream analysis, data warehouse appliances, and data mining techniques. The book also contains review questions and exercises for each chapter, appropriate for self-study or classroom work, industry examples of real-world situations, and several appendices with valuable information.

Specifically written for professionals responsible for designing, implementing, or maintaining data warehousing systems, Data Warehousing Fundamentals presents agile, thorough, and systematic development principles for the IT professional and anyone working or researching in information management.

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作者提供了一個增強版的資料倉儲綜述，並深入解釋了規劃、設計、部署和持續維護中的關鍵問題。渴望進入這個領域的IT專業人員將清楚了解從來源系統中提取數據、數據清理、數據轉換、資料倉儲架構和基礎設施以及各種信息傳遞方法的技術。

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「資料倉儲基礎」專為負責設計、實施或維護資料倉儲系統的專業人士撰寫，為IT專業人員和從事或研究信息管理的任何人提供了靈活、全面和系統化的開發原則。