90 Days to the Data Mart
This book offers a step-by-step action plan for building a departmental data mart. After a brief overview of key concepts and terms, a week-by-week action plan is provided, from planning and defining the project to writing specifications to building and testing the data mart. Checklists help readers ensure that every possible organizational, procedural, and technical step has been handled. Data Mart The little brother of the data warehouse, a data mart is a storage facility for smaller data sets, often within a specific department like human resources. Less expensive to build and maintain, data marts are an efficient choice in many instances and can be integrated into the larger data warehouse.