Download or read book Building a Data Warehouse written by Vincent Rainardi and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the ideal field guide for data warehousing implementation. This book first teaches you how to build a data warehouse, including defining the architecture, understanding the methodology, gathering the requirements, designing the data models, and creating the databases. Coverage then explains how to populate the data warehouse and explores how to present data to users using reports and multidimensional databases and how to use the data in the data warehouse for business intelligence, customer relationship management, and other purposes. It also details testing and how to administer data warehouse operation.