The authors of Data Warehouse Design Solutions share their expertise in designing successful data warehouses and concentrate on understanding business processes within a variety of industries. They thoroughly explain the idea of dimensional data, which is used to represent the quantities or attributes that can be queried in a data warehouse. The authors argue that data warehouses need to adapt to changing business conditions and often must be more flexible than planned.
Developers can build part of a solution and add new data marts later.
The result is a more adaptable approach to warehousing data. The authors offer business models, sample dimensions, database schema, and sample reports for each business area. The last chapter argues convincingly that their incremental approach to building data warehousing has some distinct advantages. To effectively design a data warehouse, one has to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows how business managers in different corporate functions actually use data warehouses to make decisions.