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Data Mapping for Data Warehouse Design

Author : Qamar Shahbaz
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128053356
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Data Mapping for Data Warehouse Design written by Qamar Shahbaz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data mapping in a data warehouse is the process of creating a link between two distinct data models’ (source and target) tables/attributes. Data mapping is required at many stages of DW life-cycle to help save processor overhead; every stage has its own unique requirements and challenges. Therefore, many data warehouse professionals want to learn data mapping in order to move from an ETL (extract, transform, and load data between databases) developer to a data modeler role. Data Mapping for Data Warehouse Design provides basic and advanced knowledge about business intelligence and data warehouse concepts including real life scenarios that apply the standard techniques to projects across various domains. After reading this book, readers will understand the importance of data mapping across the data warehouse life cycle. Covers all stages of data warehousing and the role of data mapping in each Includes a data mapping strategy and techniques that can be applied to many situations Based on the author’s years of real-world experience designing solutions

Data Warehouse Systems

Author : Alejandro Vaisman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642546552
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Data Warehouse Systems written by Alejandro Vaisman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this textbook, Vaisman and Zimányi deliver excellent coverage of data warehousing and business intelligence technologies ranging from the most basic principles to recent findings and applications. To this end, their work is structured into three parts. Part I describes “Fundamental Concepts” including multi-dimensional models; conceptual and logical data warehouse design and MDX and SQL/OLAP. Subsequently, Part II details “Implementation and Deployment,” which includes physical data warehouse design; data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) and data analytics. Lastly, Part III covers “Advanced Topics” such as spatial data warehouses; trajectory data warehouses; semantic technologies in data warehouses and novel technologies like Map Reduce, column-store databases and in-memory databases. As a key characteristic of the book, most of the topics are presented and illustrated using application tools. Specifically, a case study based on the well-known Northwind database illustrates how the concepts presented in the book can be implemented using Microsoft Analysis Services and Pentaho Business Analytics. All chapters are summarized using review questions and exercises to support comprehensive student learning. Supplemental material to assist instructors using this book as a course text is available at http://cs.ulb.ac.be/DWSDIbook/, including electronic versions of the figures, solutions to all exercises, and a set of slides accompanying each chapter. Overall, students, practitioners and researchers alike will find this book the most comprehensive reference work on data warehouses, with key topics described in a clear and educational style.

Advanced Data Warehouse Design

Author : Elzbieta Malinowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540744053
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Advanced Data Warehouse Design by : Elzbieta Malinowski

Download or read book Advanced Data Warehouse Design written by Elzbieta Malinowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional work provides readers with an introduction to the state-of-the-art research on data warehouse design, with many references to more detailed sources. It offers a clear and a concise presentation of the major concepts and results in the subject area. Malinowski and Zimányi explain conventional data warehouse design in detail, and additionally address two innovative domains recently introduced to extend the capabilities of data warehouse systems: namely, the management of spatial and temporal information.

Conceptual Modeling - ER 2004

Author : Paolo Atzeni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540304649
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Modeling - ER 2004 written by Paolo Atzeni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to the proccedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004). This conference provided an international forum for technical discussion on conceptual modeling of information systems among researchers, developers and users. This was the third time that this conference was held in Asia; the?rst time was in Singapore in 1998 and the second time was in Yokohama, Japan in 2001. China is the third largest nation with the largest population in the world. Shanghai, the largest city in China and a great metropolis, famous in Asia and throughout the world, is therefore a most appropriate location to host this conference. This volume contains papers selected for presentation and includes the two keynote talks by Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina and Prof. Gerhard Weikum, and an invited talk by Dr. Xiao Ji. This volume also contains industrial papers and demo/poster papers. An additional volume contains papers from 6 workshops. The conference also featured three tutorials: (1) Web Change Management andDelta Mining: Opportunities andSolutions, by SanjayMadria, (2)A Survey of Data Quality Issues in Cooperative Information Systems, by Carlo Batini, and (3) Visual SQL - An ER-Based Introduction to Database Programming, by Bernhard Thalheim.

Data Warehousing 101

Author : Arshad Khan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595290698
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Data Warehousing 101 written by Arshad Khan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Warehousing 101: Concepts and Implementation will appeal to those planning data warehouse projects, senior executives, project managers, and project implementation team members. It will also be useful to functional managers, business analysts, developers, power users, and end-users. Data Warehousing 101: Concepts and Implementation, which can be used as a textbook in an introductory data warehouse course, can also be used as a supplemental text in IT courses that cover the subject of data warehousing. Data Warehousing 101: Concepts and Implementation reviews the evolution of data warehousing and its growth drivers, process and architecture, data warehouse characteristics and design, data marts, multi-dimensionality, and OLAP. It also shows how to plan a data warehouse project as well as build and operate data warehouses. Data Warehousing 101: Concepts and Implementation also covers, in depth, common failure causes and mistakes and provides useful guidelines and tips for avoiding common mistakes.

Building a Data Warehouse

Author : Vincent Rainardi
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 9781590599310
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Building a Data Warehouse written by Vincent Rainardi and published by Apress. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a Data Warehouse: With Examples in SQL Server describes how to build a data warehouse completely from scratch and shows practical examples on how to do it. Author Vincent Rainardi also describes some practical issues he has experienced that developers are likely to encounter in their first data warehousing project, along with solutions and advice. The relational database management system (RDBMS) used in the examples is SQL Server; the version will not be an issue as long as the user has SQL Server 2005 or later. The book is organized as follows. In the beginning of this book (chapters 1 through 6), you learn how to build a data warehouse, for example, defining the architecture, understanding the methodology, gathering the requirements, designing the data models, and creating the databases. Then in chapters 7 through 10, you learn how to populate the data warehouse, for example, extracting from source systems, loading the data stores, maintaining data quality, and utilizing the metadata. After you populate the data warehouse, in chapters 11 through 15, you explore how to present data to users using reports and multidimensional databases and how to use the data in the data warehouse for business intelligence, customer relationship management, and other purposes. Chapters 16 and 17 wrap up the book: After you have built your data warehouse, before it can be released to production, you need to test it thoroughly. After your application is in production, you need to understand how to administer data warehouse operation. What you’ll learn A detailed understanding of what it takes to build a data warehouse The implementation code in SQL Server to build the data warehouse Dimensional modeling, data extraction methods, data warehouse loading, populating dimension and fact tables, data quality, data warehouse architecture, and database design Practical data warehousing applications such as business intelligence reports, analytics applications, and customer relationship management Who this book is for There are three audiences for the book. The first are the people who implement the data warehouse. This could be considered a field guide for them. The second is database users/admins who want to get a good understanding of what it would take to build a data warehouse. Finally, the third audience is managers who must make decisions about aspects of the data warehousing task before them and use the book to learn about these issues.

Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies

Author : Matteo Golfarelli
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071610405
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

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Book Synopsis Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies by : Matteo Golfarelli

Download or read book Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies written by Matteo Golfarelli and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Mark Stephen LaRow, Vice President of Products, MicroStrategy "A unique and authoritative book that blends recent research developments with industry-level practices for researchers, students, and industry practitioners." Il-Yeol Song, Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University

Data Architecture: A Primer for the Data Scientist

Author : W.H. Inmon
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128020911
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Data Architecture: A Primer for the Data Scientist by : W.H. Inmon

Download or read book Data Architecture: A Primer for the Data Scientist written by W.H. Inmon and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the world is trying to create and educate data scientists because of the phenomenon of Big Data. And everyone is looking deeply into this technology. But no one is looking at the larger architectural picture of how Big Data needs to fit within the existing systems (data warehousing systems). Taking a look at the larger picture into which Big Data fits gives the data scientist the necessary context for how pieces of the puzzle should fit together. Most references on Big Data look at only one tiny part of a much larger whole. Until data gathered can be put into an existing framework or architecture it can’t be used to its full potential. Data Architecture a Primer for the Data Scientist addresses the larger architectural picture of how Big Data fits with the existing information infrastructure, an essential topic for the data scientist. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and an easy to understand framework. W.H. Inmon, and Daniel Linstedt define the importance of data architecture and how it can be used effectively to harness big data within existing systems. You’ll be able to: Turn textual information into a form that can be analyzed by standard tools. Make the connection between analytics and Big Data Understand how Big Data fits within an existing systems environment Conduct analytics on repetitive and non-repetitive data Discusses the value in Big Data that is often overlooked, non-repetitive data, and why there is significant business value in using it Shows how to turn textual information into a form that can be analyzed by standard tools Explains how Big Data fits within an existing systems environment Presents new opportunities that are afforded by the advent of Big Data Demystifies the murky waters of repetitive and non-repetitive data in Big Data

Building the Data Warehouse

Author : W. H. Inmon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471774235
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Building the Data Warehouse written by W. H. Inmon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-10-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of the classic bestseller that launched thedata warehousing industry covers new approaches and technologies,many of which have been pioneered by Inmon himself In addition to explaining the fundamentals of data warehousesystems, the book covers new topics such as methods for handlingunstructured data in a data warehouse and storing data acrossmultiple storage media Discusses the pros and cons of relational versusmultidimensional design and how to measure return on investment inplanning data warehouse projects Covers advanced topics, including data monitoring andtesting Although the book includes an extra 100 pages worth of valuablecontent, the price has actually been reduced from $65 to $55

Agile Data Warehouse Design

Author : Lawrence Corr
Publisher : DecisionOne Consulting
ISBN 13 : 0956817203
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Agile Data Warehouse Design written by Lawrence Corr and published by DecisionOne Consulting. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile Data Warehouse Design is a step-by-step guide for capturing data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI) requirements and turning them into high performance dimensional models in the most direct way: by modelstorming (data modeling + brainstorming) with BI stakeholders. This book describes BEAM✲, an agile approach to dimensional modeling, for improving communication between data warehouse designers, BI stakeholders and the whole DW/BI development team. BEAM✲ provides tools and techniques that will encourage DW/BI designers and developers to move away from their keyboards and entity relationship based tools and model interactively with their colleagues. The result is everyone thinks dimensionally from the outset! Developers understand how to efficiently implement dimensional modeling solutions. Business stakeholders feel ownership of the data warehouse they have created, and can already imagine how they will use it to answer their business questions. Within this book, you will learn: ✲ Agile dimensional modeling using Business Event Analysis & Modeling (BEAM✲) ✲ Modelstorming: data modeling that is quicker, more inclusive, more productive, and frankly more fun! ✲ Telling dimensional data stories using the 7Ws (who, what, when, where, how many, why and how) ✲ Modeling by example not abstraction; using data story themes, not crow's feet, to describe detail ✲ Storyboarding the data warehouse to discover conformed dimensions and plan iterative development ✲ Visual modeling: sketching timelines, charts and grids to model complex process measurement - simply ✲ Agile design documentation: enhancing star schemas with BEAM✲ dimensional shorthand notation ✲ Solving difficult DW/BI performance and usability problems with proven dimensional design patterns Lawrence Corr is a data warehouse designer and educator. As Principal of DecisionOne Consulting, he helps clients to review and simplify their data warehouse designs, and advises vendors on visual data modeling techniques. He regularly teaches agile dimensional modeling courses worldwide and has taught dimensional DW/BI skills to thousands of students. Jim Stagnitto is a data warehouse and master data management architect specializing in the healthcare, financial services, and information service industries. He is the founder of the data warehousing and data mining consulting firm Llumino.

Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Author : Matthias Jarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662051532
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Learn Data Warehousing in 24 Hours

Author : Alex Nordeen
Publisher : Guru99
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learn Data Warehousing in 24 Hours written by Alex Nordeen and published by Guru99. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike popular belief, Data Warehouse is not a single tool but a collection of software tools. A data warehouse will collect data from diverse sources into a single database. Using Business Intelligence tools, meaningful insights are drawn from this data. The best thing about “Learn Data Warehousing in 1 Day" is that it is small and can be completed in a day. With this e-book, you will be enough knowledge to contribute and participate in a Data warehouse implementation project. The book covers upcoming and promising technologies like Data Lakes, Data Mart, ELT (Extract Load Transform) amongst others. Following are detailed topics included in the book Table Of Content Chapter 1: What Is Data Warehouse? 1. What is Data Warehouse? 2. Types of Data Warehouse 3. Who needs Data warehouse? 4. Why We Need Data Warehouse? 5. Data Warehouse Tools Chapter 2: Data Warehouse Architecture 1. Characteristics of Data warehouse 2. Data Warehouse Architectures 3. Datawarehouse Components 4. Query Tools Chapter 3: ETL Process 1. What is ETL? 2. Why do you need ETL? 3. ETL Process 4. ETL tools Chapter 4: ETL Vs ELT 1. What is ETL? 2. Difference between ETL vs. ELT Chapter 5: Data Modeling 1. What is Data Modelling? 2. Types of Data Models 3. Characteristics of a physical data model Chapter 6: OLAP 1. What is Online Analytical Processing? 2. Types of OLAP systems 3. Advantages and Disadvantages of OLAP Chapter 7: Multidimensional Olap (MOLAP) 1. What is MOLAP? 2. MOLAP Architecture 3. MOLAP Tools Chapter 8: OLAP Vs OLTP 1. What is the meaning of OLAP? 2. What is the meaning of OLTP? 3. Difference between OLTP and OLAP Chapter 9: Dimensional Modeling 1. What is Dimensional Model? 2. Elements of Dimensional Data Model 3. Attributes 4. Difference between Dimension table vs. Fact table 5. Steps of Dimensional Modelling 6. Rules for Dimensional Modelling Chapter 10: Star and SnowFlake Schema 1. What is Multidimensional schemas? 2. What is a Star Schema? 3. What is a Snowflake Schema? 4. Difference between Start Schema and Snowflake Chapter 11: Data Mart 1. What is Data Mart? 2. Type of Data Mart 3. Steps in Implementing a Datamart Chapter 12: Data Mart Vs Data Warehouse 1. What is Data Warehouse? 2. What is Data Mart? 3. Differences between a Data Warehouse and a Data Mart Chapter 13: Data Lake 1. What is Data Lake? 2. Data Lake Architecture 3. Key Data Lake Concepts 4. Maturity stages of Data Lake Chapter 14: Data Lake Vs Data Warehouse 1. What is Data Warehouse? 2. What is Data Lake? 3. Key Difference between the Data Lake and Data Warehouse Chapter 15: What Is Business Intelligence? 1. What is Business Intelligence 2. Why is BI important? 3. How Business Intelligence systems are implemented? 4. Four types of BI users Chapter 16: Data Mining 1. What is Data Mining? 2. Types of Data 3. Data Mining Process 4. Modelling 5. Data Mining Techniques Chapter 17: Data Warehousing Vs Data Mining 1. What is Data warehouse? 2. What Is Data Mining? 3. Difference between Data mining and Data Warehousing?

Mastering Data Warehouse Design

Author : Claudia Imhoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471480924
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Mastering Data Warehouse Design written by Claudia Imhoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge response to Ralph Kimball's challenge to thedata warehouse community that answers some tough questions aboutthe effectiveness of the relational approach to datawarehousing Written by one of the best-known exponents of the Bill Inmonapproach to data warehousing Addresses head-on the tough issues raised by Kimball andexplains how to choose the best modeling technique for solvingcommon data warehouse design problems Weighs the pros and cons of relational vs. dimensional modelingtechniques Focuses on tough modeling problems, including creating andmaintaining keys and modeling calendars, hierarchies, transactions,and data quality

Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse

Author : Ramón C. Barquín
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Planning and Designing the Data Warehouse written by Ramón C. Barquín and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1997 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive survey of key issues associated with planning and designing enterprise data warehouses.Covers the process of implementing a data warehouse end-to-end, from planning a data warehouse, to achieving management support, to implementing metadata repositories that make it easier to access real information, rather than mere data. One chapter is dedicated to helping managers avoid mistakes that can limit the effectiveness of a data warehouse. Once the data warehouse is in place, this book provides guidance on helping end users make the most of it. Two detailed case studies are also included.Information technology managers, and database professionals, including administrators, programmers and designers.

The Data Warehouse Toolkit

Author : Ralph Kimball
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118082141
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Data Warehouse Toolkit written by Ralph Kimball and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This old edition was published in 2002. The current and final edition of this book is The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 3rd Edition which was published in 2013 under ISBN: 9781118530801. The authors begin with fundamental design recommendations and gradually progress step-by-step through increasingly complex scenarios. Clear-cut guidelines for designing dimensional models are illustrated using real-world data warehouse case studies drawn from a variety of business application areas and industries, including: Retail sales and e-commerce Inventory management Procurement Order management Customer relationship management (CRM) Human resources management Accounting Financial services Telecommunications and utilities Education Transportation Health care and insurance By the end of the book, you will have mastered the full range of powerful techniques for designing dimensional databases that are easy to understand and provide fast query response. You will also learn how to create an architected framework that integrates the distributed data warehouse using standardized dimensions and facts.

Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Author : Matthias Jarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662041383
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Data Warehouses written by Matthias Jarke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comparative review of the state of the art and best current practice in data warehousing. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimisation, update propagation, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimisation. Also, based on results of the European DWQ project, it offers a conceptual framework by which the architecture and quality of data warehousing efforts can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata management combined with advanced techniques from databases, business modelling, and artificial intelligence. An excellent introduction to the issues of quality and metadata usage for researchers and database professionals in academia and industry. XXXXXXX Neuer Text 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.

Mastering Data Warehouse Design

Author : Claudia Imhoff
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471324218
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Mastering Data Warehouse Design written by Claudia Imhoff and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge response to Ralph Kimball's challenge to the data warehouse community that answers some tough questions about the effectiveness of the relational approach to data warehousing Written by one of the best-known exponents of the Bill Inmon approach to data warehousing Addresses head-on the tough issues raised by Kimball and explains how to choose the best modeling technique for solving common data warehouse design problems Weighs the pros and cons of relational vs. dimensional modeling techniques Focuses on tough modeling problems, including creating and maintaining keys and modeling calendars, hierarchies, transactions, and data quality