Fundamentals of Database Systems combines clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions to modern database technologies. This edition is completely revised and updated, and reflects the latest trends in technological and application development....
Recent developments in information systems technologies have resulted in computerizing many applications in various business areas. Data have become a critical resource in many organizations; therefore, efficient access to data, sharing data, extracting information from data, and making use of information has become an urgent need. As a result,...
Learn the most recent advances in data warehousing technology from the "Father of Data Warehousing"
Since it was first published in 1990, W. H. Inmon’s Building the Data Warehouse has become the bible of data warehousing–– the first and best introduction to the subject. A lot has changed in data warehousing...
The first book to offer in-depth coverage of star schema aggregate tables
Dubbed by Ralph Kimball as the most effective technique for maximizing star schema performance, dimensional aggregates are a powerful and efficient tool that can accelerate data warehouse queries more dramatically than any other technology. After you ensure...
Oracle Corporation acquired GoldenGate in 2009 as part of future strategy to implement advanced
replication technologies within the product suite of data warehousing and real-time transaction
management. Before the advent of Oracle GoldenGate technology, data replication was performed using
Oracle Streams and third-party replication...
Learn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools. Select and implement the best free and freemium open-source BI tools for your company’s needs and design, implement, and integrate BI automation across the full stack using agile methodologies.
In many decision support fields the data that is exploited tends to be more and more complex. To take this phenomenon into account, classical architectures of data warehouses or data mining algorithms must be completely re-evaluated.
Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support provides readers with an overview of the emerging...
Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on everyone’s mind: Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications?
Business Intelligence (BI): Its not just a technology. Its not just a methodology. Its a powerful new management approach that when done right can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it.
When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver. The...
PAKDD has been recognized as a major international conference in the areas of
data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). It provides an
international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new
ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all
KDD-related areas...
Data warehousing and OLAP (online analytical processing) technologies have gained a widespread acceptance since the 90’s as a support for decision-making. A data warehouse is a collection of subject-oriented, integrated, consolidated, time-varying, and non-volatile data (Kimball, 1996; Inmon, 1996). It is manipulated through OLAP tools, which...
Education and research in the field of database technology can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements.
Selected Readings on Database Technologies and Applications supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused on key...
