TY - BOOK AU - Bischoff,Joyce AU - Alexander,Ted TI - Data warehouse: practical advice from the experts SN - 0135773709 U1 - 005.74 21 PY - 1997///] CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall KW - Database management KW - Data warehousing N1 - "An Alan R. Apt book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Trademarks -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part One: Getting started. 1. Introduction to data warehousing / Joyce Bischoff -- 2. A renaissance for information technology / Paul Hessinger -- 3. Organizational and cultural issues / Sid Adelman -- 4. Working effectively with end users / Joyce Bischoff -- 5. The seven deadly sins / Denis Kosar -- 6. Real-world data warehousing: the management challenge / Howard Fosdick -- Part Two: Planning the data warehouse. 7. A technical architecture for data warehousing / Colin White -- 8. Creating a business case / Jay Marquez -- 9. A flexible approach to developing a data warehouse / John Ladley -- Part Three: Data: the critical issue. 10. Data quality / Sid Adelman -- 11. Metadata / Dave Gleason -- 12. The role of a directory/catalog / Jack Sweeney -- 13. Data transformation / Dave Gleason -- Part Four: Design and implementation. 14. Physical design / Joyce Bischoff -- 15. Multidimensional OLAP versus relational OLAP / Colin White -- 16. Data replication in a global warehousing environment / Marie Buretta -- 17. VLDBS and parallelism / Richard Yevich -- 18. Implementing a warehouse in a multiserver environment using parallel technology / Trina LaRue -- 19. Middleware: gluing the warehouse together / Susan Gausden and Terry Mason -- 20. Design reviews for the data warehouse / Joyce Bischoff -- 21. The virtual data warehouse / Edward M. Peters -- 22. Operational data stores: developing an effective strategy / John Ladley -- 23. Data mining / Richard Yevich -- Part Five: Data warehouse administration. 24. Systems administration / Brenda Castiel -- 25. Database administration issues in a heterogeneous environment / Martin Hubel -- 26. Security in the data warehouse / Martin Hubel -- 27. Selecting end-user tools / Peter Brooks -- Part Six: Trends. 28. Trends in data warehousing / Pete Uhrowczik -- Glossary -- Author profiles -- Index ER -