Oracle Data Warehousing Unleashed

Publisher: SAMS
Author: Bonnie O'Neil, Michael Schrader, John Dakin, et al.
ISBN: 0672310775
Publication Date: 29-SEP-97

Timely Solutions

• Examine comprehensive coverage of the most important topics, including backup and recovery, security, project management, and data marts
• Prepare your existing data for conversion to a data warehouse using integration and cleansing techniques
• Explore key design issues, concerns, and problems related to the logical and physical database design of an Oracle data warehouse
• Enhance your warehouse using common tuning techniques
• Solve your data access challenges
• Avoid making the ten mistakes that will cause any data warehouse project to fail
• Calculate the theoretical size of database objects
• Discover data modeling techniques and options to improve summarization
• Master data mining and the Internet
• Understand the appropriate use of indexes
• Use real-life "war stories" to implement techniques in your data warehouse
• Determine freshness requirements for data marts