Ponniah, Paulraj. <br/><br/>
Data warehousing fundamentals for IT professionals  
/ Paulraj Ponniah. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New Jersey :  John Wiley & Sons,  2010 
 - xxviii, 571 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/> Previous ed. published under title: Data warehousing fundamentals. 
<br/><br/>1.	Data warehousing fundamentals for it professionals <br/>2.	Contents <br/>3.	Preface <br/>Part 1 overview and concepts <br/>1.	The compelling need for data warehousing <br/>2.	Data warehouse: the building blocks <br/>3.	Trends in data warehousing <br/>Part 2 planning and requirements <br/>1.	Planning and project management <br/>2.	Defining the business requirements <br/>3.	Requirements as the driving force for data warehousing <br/>Part 3 architecture and infrastructure <br/>1.	Architectural components <br/>2.	Infrastructure as the foundation for data warehousing <br/>3.	The significant role of metadata <br/>Part 4 data design and data preparation. <br/>1.	Principles of dimensional modeling<br/>2.	Dimensional modeling: advanced topics <br/>3.	Data extraction, transformation, and loading <br/>4.	Data quality: a key to success <br/>Part 5 information access and delivery <br/>1.	Matching information to the classes of users <br/>2.	Olap in the data warehouse 	<br/>3.	Data warehousing and the web <br/>4.	Data mining basics<br/>Part 6 implementation and maintenance <br/>1.	The physical design process <br/>2.	Data warehouse deployment <br/>3.	Growth and maintenance.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780470462072 (cloth) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Data warehousing.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.74/5  / P797