Chapter Two

Relational Theory In Practice

A technical look at the relational theory, so the reader can keep in mind its advantages as the information management technology community continues to expand elsewhere. A review of the current usual landscape of data warehouses, data marts, and specialized marts like multidimensional databases and their lasting value in the information ecosystem.

Keywords

business intelligence; data warehousing; relational theory; database management systems; database; database theory; relational data; data warehouse; SQL

Over 40 years ago, E. F. Codd of IBM published definitive papers on the relational database model. IBM and Oracle embraced the model early and developed commercial database systems (DBMS) that utilized ...

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