Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Evolution of decision support systems
  • Ch. 2. The data warehouse environment
  • Ch. 3. The data warehouse and design
  • Ch. 4. Granularity in the data warehouse
  • Ch. 5. The data warehouse and technology
  • Ch. 6. The distributed data warehouse
  • Ch. 7. Executive information systems and the data warehouse
  • Ch. 8. External data and the data warehouse
  • Ch. 9. Migration to the architected environment
  • Ch. 10. The data warehouse and the Web
  • Ch. 11. Unstructured data and the data warehouse
  • Ch. 12. The really large data warehouse
  • Ch. 13. The relational and the multidimensional models as a basis for database design
  • Ch. 14. Data warehouse advanced topics
  • Ch. 15. Cost-justification and return on investment for a data warehouse
  • Ch. 16. The data warehouse and the ODS
  • Ch. 17. Corporate information compliance and data warehousing
  • Ch. 18. The end-user community
  • Ch. 19. Data warehouse design review checklist.