Data Warehousing

The data warehousing revolution has been underway for over ten years
within information technology (IT) departments around the world. If
you’re an IT professional, or you’re fashionably referred to as a knowledge
worker (someone who regularly uses computer technology in the course of
your day-to-day business operations), data warehousing is for you! If you
haven’t heard of this phenomenon, you might be aware of the tools that
access the data warehouse — business intelligence tools. Data Warehousing
For Dummies, 2nd Edition, guides you through the overwhelming amount of
hype about this subject to help you get the most from data warehousing.
If you’re an IT professional (a software developer, database administrator,
software development manager, or data-processing executive), this book provides
you with a clear, no-hype description of data warehousing technology
and methodology — what works, what doesn’t work, and why.
If you regularly use computers in your job to find information and facts as
a contracts analyst, researcher, district sales manager, or any one of thousands
of other jobs in which data is a key asset to you and your organization,
this book has in-depth information about the real business value (again,
without the hype) that you can gain from data warehousing