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Data Warehousing
Using the Wal-Mart Model
- 1st Edition - August 18, 2000
- Author: Paul Westerman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 8 6 0 - 6 8 4 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 0 3 7 2 - 1
At 70 terabytes and growing, Wal-Mart's data warehouse is still the world's largest, most ambitious, and arguably most successful commercial database. Written by one of the key fi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAt 70 terabytes and growing, Wal-Mart's data warehouse is still the world's largest, most ambitious, and arguably most successful commercial database. Written by one of the key figures in its design and construction, Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model gives you an insider's view of this enormous project. Continuously drawing from this example, the author teaches you the general principles and specific techniques you need to understand to be a valuable part of your organization's own data warehouse project, however large or small. You'll emerge with a practical understanding of both the business and technical aspects of building a data warehouse for storing and accessing data in a strategically useful way.
What further sets this book apart is its focus on the informational needs of retail companies-including both market and organizational issues that affect the data's collection and use. If retail is your field, this book will prove especially valuable as you develop and implement your company's ideal data warehouse solution.
- No. of pages: 297
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 18, 2000
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9781558606845
- eBook ISBN: 9780080503721
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Paul Westerman
Paul Westerman is a Global Marketing Manager for Compaq Computers, Inc. He began his retail career with Wal-Mart, where he was one of the four people responsible for designing and building the Wal-Mart data warehouse-still the world's largest. Since then, Paul has played a key role in many very large data warehouses projects around the world-in the retail industry, telephone industry, and other areas-and has spoken to audiences around the world about the benefits of applying the data warehouse technology to business. He holds a BS in Computing and Information Sciences from Oklahoma State University.