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 The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouseLearn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts.
This all-inclusive volume begins with dimensional design fundamentals and shows how they fit into diverse data warehouse architectures, including those of W.H. Inmon and Ralph Kimball. The book progresses through a series of advanced techniques that help you address real-world complexity, maximize performance, and adapt to the requirements of BI and ETL software products. You are furnished with design tasks and deliverables that can be incorporated into any project, regardless of architecture or methodology.
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<li>Master the fundamentals of star schema design and slow change processing</li>
<li>Identify situations that call for multiple stars or cubes</li>
<li>Ensure compatibility across subject areas as your data warehouse grows</li>
<li>Accommodate repeating attributes, recursive hierarchies, and poor data quality</li>
<li>Support conflicting requirements for historic data</li>
<li>Handle variation within a business process and correlation of disparate activities</li>
<li>Boost performance using derived schemas and aggregates</li>
<li>Learn when it's appropriate to adjust designs for BI and ETL tools</li>
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Star Schema The Complete Reference

Computers & Technology

ADAMSON, Christopher

Databases & Big Data

McGraw=Hill

"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword. Let the experts show you how to customize data warehouse designs for real business needs in Data Warehouse Design Solutions. To effectively design a data warehouse, you have to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows you how business managers in different corporate functions actually use data warehouses to make decisions. You'll get a rich set of data warehouse designs that flow from realistic business cases. Two top experts show you how to customize your data warehouse designs for real-life business needs including: * Sales and marketing * Production and inventory management * Budgeting and financial reporting * Quality control * Product delivery and fulfillment * Strategic business analysis such as determining market share, rates of return on investment, and other key analytic ratios. CD-ROM includes All sample data warehouse designs with accompanying preformatted reports in HTML for specific business uses such as marketing, sales, and financial analysis.

Data Warehouse Design Solutions

Business & Money

Venerable, Michael

Management & Leadership

wiley

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<li>This is the first book to provide in-depth coverage of star schema aggregates used in dimensional modeling-from selection and design, to loading and usage, to specific tasks and deliverables for implementation projects</li> <li>Covers the principles of aggregate schema design and the pros and cons of various types of commercial solutions for navigating and building aggregates</li> <li>Discusses how to include aggregates in data warehouse development projects that focus on incremental development, iterative builds, and early data loads</li> </ul>

Mastering Data Warehouse Aggregates: Solutions for Star Schema Performance

Networking & Cloud Computing

Packing the power of desktop applications into a small mobile device, the iPhone SDK offers developers the ability to create dynamic, visually-appealing, and highly-capable mobile applications, using the same APIs and tools that Apple uses for its own applications. However, harnessing that power means learning new tools, new APIs, and even a whole new programming language. iPhone SDK Development is a Pragmatic guide to get you started developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch. With it, you'll get a complete understanding of the tools and techniques needed to succeed on the platform: Use the XCode IDE to manage your source code, images, sounds, database files, and other application resources, building your app and deploying it onto your own device for testing. Develop your user interface the visual, code-free way, with Interface Builder. Master the iPhone's unique user interface components, including tables, tab bars, navigation bars, and the multi-touch interface. Connect your iPhone to the outside world with networking, exploit the power of a relational database with SQLite, and rock out with first-class support for audio and video. Make use of the iPhone's unique mobile APIs, like geolocation and the motion-sensing accelerometer Use XCode's powerful performance and debugging tools to eliminate memory leaks, zombies, and other hazards. * Understand the process for packaging your application for end-user distribution through Apple's App Store. With explanations of the big picture and an eye to the little details that you'll need, iPhone SDK Development will help you succeed on today's most important mobile platform.

iPhone SDK Development (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Dudney, Bill

Pragmatic Bookshelf

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