Learn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a...

...

Dimensional modeling has become the most widely accepted approach for data warehouse design. Here is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques–– the most comprehensive collection ever written. Greatly expanded to...

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...

Since the 1960s, database systems have been playing a relevant role in the information technology field. By the mid-1960s, several systems were also available for commercial purposes. Hierarchical and network database systems provided two different perspectives and data models to organize data collections. In 1970, E. Codd wrote a...

Many executives, managers, business analysts, and nontechnical personnel are highly motivated to learn more about data warehousing. They want to understand what data warehouses are and how they work. More important, many are truly interested in doing their part to ensure success when implementing a data warehouse in their company. They are...

Fifteen years ago, Michael and I wrote the first version of this book. A little more than 400 pages, the book fulfilled our goal of surveying the field of data mining by bridging the gap between the technical and the practical, by helping business people understand the data mining techniques and by helping technical people understand the...