Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Download or read book Fundamentals of Data Warehouses written by Matthias Jarke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and the best current practices of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimization, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimization. A conceptual framework is presented by which the architecture and quality of a data warehouse can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata management combined with advanced techniques from databases, business modeling, and artificial intelligence.