Chapter 9. Performing Advanced Operations with Databases

In this chapter you will learn about advanced operations with databases. The first part of the chapter includes:

  • Populating the Jigsaw puzzle database so that it is prepared for the rest of the activities in the chapter
  • Doing simple lookups in a database
  • Doing complex lookups

The second part of the chapter is fully devoted to datawarehouse-related concepts. The list of the topics that will be covered includes:

  • Introducing dimensional modeling
  • Loading dimensions

Preparing the environment

In order to learn the concepts of this chapter, a database with little or no data is useless. Therefore, the first thing you'll do is populating your Jigsaw puzzle database.

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