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Data Warehousing, Data Mining, & OLAP

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This definitive, up-to-the-minute reference provides strategic, theoretical and practical insight into three of the most promising information management technologies--data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data mining--showing how these technologies can work together to create a new class of information delivery system: the Information Factory. It comprehensively covers data warehouse design (using various approaches, models and indexing techniques), relational data base mining, data warehousing on the Web, and data replication. Several chapters discuss application development with popular OLAP tools. Key Features: The main premise of this book is that, to date, several technologies have matured independently of one another, and no one as yet has thought a great deal about how to put the pieces together. This book reveals how the technologies and architectures work together adn what value they provide to the end user. This book presents the big picture by showing the business person how a data warehouse can be made useful to him or her. Another unique aspects of this book is that it contains a lot of material, some of which can be found in various vendor publications and in specialized research and trade literature. About the Author: Alex Berson is a senior information technology architect with over 20 years of experience in various areas of information technology including distributed client/server computing, database systems, parallel computing systems, object technology, data communications, and machine learning. He has successfully designed and implemented several large-scale data warehousing projects for major financial services companies. He is the author of several best-selling McGraw-Hill books, including Client/Server Architecture/2E and Sybase and Client/Server Computing. Stephen J. Smith is a director and architect respo

638 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1997

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