Chapter 2. Designing a Warehouse
Designing a Warehouse
Readers of this chapter probably fall into one of three categories. They have either:
Never designed a database before
Designed a database for a transaction processing–type system
Built a data warehouse system
In the latter case, you could skip this chapter or use it as a refresher, especially if your last database used Oracle. Therefore, this chapter is aimed at readers who fall into categories one or two, which may surprise the person who has previously designed a non-data warehouse database. Why? Because the skills and techniques used to create a database for a data warehouse will be different from those required for a transaction processing–type (OLTP) system. Consequently, though you will ...
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