Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Simplified: 500 Questions, Answers, & Tips

This book targets business and IT professionals who need an introduction to business intelligence and data warehousing through a simple question/answer format. Organized into 30 odd chapters, each on a different topic, the book contains approximately 500 questions with answers and tips.

Topics include evolution and fundamentals, characteristics and process, architecture and objects, metadata, data conversion, ETL, data storage, infrastructure, data access, data marts, implementation approaches, planning, design, Inmon vs. Kimball, multi-dimensionality, OLAP, facts and dimensions, common mistakes and tips, etc. The book can also be used as a supplemental textbook, for various data warehousing/business intelligence courses.

這本書針對需要透過簡單的問答形式介紹商業智能和資料倉儲的商業和IT專業人士。書籍分為30個不同主題的章節，包含約500個問題及其答案和技巧。

主題包括演進和基礎知識、特性和流程、架構和物件、元數據、資料轉換、ETL、資料儲存、基礎設施、資料存取、資料集市、實施方法、規劃、設計、Inmon vs. Kimball、多維度、OLAP、事實和維度、常見錯誤和技巧等。這本書也可以作為各種資料倉儲/商業智能課程的輔助教材使用。