"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed book that will be of inestimable value to anyone struggling with the complex details of designing, building, and maintaining an enterprise-wide decision support system Highly recommended" -Robert S Craig, Vice President, Application Architectures, Hurwitz Group, Inc In his bestselling озмыв book, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Ralph Kimball showed you how to use dimensional modeling to design effective and usable data warehouses Now, he carries these techniques to the larger issues of delivering complete data marts and data warehouses Drawing upon their experiences with numerous data warehouse implementations, he and his coauthors show you all the practical details involved in planning, designing, developing, deploying, and growing data warehouses Important topics include: - The Business Dimensional Lifecycle(TM) approach to data warehouse project planning and management - Techniques for gathering requirements more effectively and efficiently - Advanced dimensional modeling techniques to capture the most complex business rules - The Data Warehouse Bus Architecture and other approaches for integrating data marts into super-flexible data warehouses - A framework for creating your technical architecture - Techniques for minimizing the risks involved with data staging - Aggregations and other effective ways to boost data warehouse performance - Cutting-edge, Internet-based data warehouse security techniques The CD-ROM supplies you with: - Complete data warehouse project plan tasks and responsibilities - A set of sample models that demonstrate the Bus Architecture - Blank versions of the templates and tools described in the book - Checklists to use at key points in the project Авторы (показать всех авторов) Ральф Кимбэлл Ralph Kimball Laura Reeves Margy Ross.  В сборник1998 г Мягкая обложка, 780 стр ISBN 0-471-25547-5.