Designing a data warehouse: supporting customer relationship management
he main subject of this book is data warehousing. A data warehouse is a special kind of database that, in recent years, has attracted a great deal of interest in the information technology industry. Quite a few books have been published about data warehousing generally, but very few have focused on...
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| Итог: | he main subject of this book is data warehousing. A data warehouse is a special kind of database that, in recent years, has attracted a great deal of interest in the information technology industry. Quite a few books have been published about data warehousing generally, but very few have focused on the design of data warehouses. There are some notable exceptions, and these will be cited in this book, which concentrates, principally, on the design aspects of data warehousing. Data warehousing is all about making information available. No one doubts the value of information, and everyone agrees that most organizations have a potential "Aladdin's Cave" of information that is locked away within their operational systems. A data warehouse can be the key that opens the door to this information. There is strong evidence to suggest that our early foray in the field of data warehousing, what I refer to as first-generation data warehouses, has not been entirely successful. As is often the case with new ideas, especially in the information technology (IT) industry, the IT practitioners were quick to spot the potential, and they tried hard to secure the competitive advantage for their organizations that the data warehouse promised. In doing so I believe two points were overlooked. The first point is that, at first sight, a data warehouse can appear to be quite a simple application. In reality it is anything but simple. Quite apart from the basic issue of sheer scale (data warehouse databases are amongst the largest on earth) and the consequent performance difficulties presented by this, the data structures are inherently more complex thantheearly pioneers of these systems realized. As a result, there was a tendency to over-simplify the design so that, although the database was simple to understand and use, many important questions could not be asked. |
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| Объем: | xx, 323 páginas: gra 23.5 cm |
| Библиография: | incl. ref. |
| ISBN: | 0130897124 |