Riadh Ben Messaoud

Provide principles and concepts related to the

implementation of data warehouses

Learn fundamental techniques for developing On-line

Analysis Processing (OLAP) tools

Treat issues related to practical use of ad hoc software

Data Warehouses & OLAP

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling - 2nd
Edition, Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross, Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002.

Building the Data Warehouse - 1st Edition, Bill Inmon, Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1992.

DW 2.0 - Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing, Bill Inmon,
Derek Strauss, Genia Neushloss, Elsevier Press, 2008.

Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining, S. Nagabhushana, New Age

International Publishers, 2006.

Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse, Fon Silvers, CRC Press, 2008.

Data Warehouses and OLAP: Concepts, Architectures and Solutions, Robert

Wrembel & Christian Koncilia, IRM Press, 2007.

Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2: Getting Started 2011, Bob Griesemer, Packt
Publishing, 2011.
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The Big Picture

Data Warehouse Philosophy
Data Warehouse Concepts
Warehousing Applications
Warehouse Schema Design
Business Intelligence Reporting
On-Line Analytical Processing
OLAP Applications
Data Warehouse Implementation
Warehousing Software
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The Big Picture

Data Warehouse Philosophy
Data Warehouse Concepts
Warehousing Applications
Warehouse Schema Design
Business Intelligence Reporting
On-Line Analytical Processing
OLAP Applications
Data Warehouse Implementation
Warehousing Software
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1977 Jimmy Carter was President of the United States

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1977 Star Wars hit the big screen

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1977 Apple Computer, Inc. introduced to the world the first

personal computer
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1981 Prince Charles and Lady Diana married

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1981 IBM began selling its IBM PC

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1985 Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union

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All along these years:

Data was finding its own home inside computers
Data was going everywhere

Supervisors, managers, and executives alike were no

longer able to look at a single clipboard to find out how
the business was performing

Such was the origin of Decision Support Systems

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What is a DW?

It is a DB designed for analytical tasks

It uses data from multiple applications
It supports a small number of users with long interactions
Its usage is read-intensive
Its content is periodically updated (mostly additions)
It contains current and historical data
It provides a historical perspectives of information
It contains a few large tables
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What is a DW?

A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, timevariant and non-volatile collection of data in support of
management's decision making process.
Bill Inmon (Building the Data Warehouse)

A data warehouse is a copy of transaction data specifically

structured for query and analysis.
Ralph Kimball (The Data Warehouse Toolkit)

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