ABSTRACT

Effective decision support systems (DSS) are quickly becoming key to businesses gaining a competitive advantage, and the effectiveness of these systems depends on the ability to construct, maintain, and extract information from data warehouses. While many still perceive data warehousing as a subdiscipline of management information systems (MIS), in

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|34 pages

From DBMS to data warehousing

chapter 4|24 pages

Data preparation and preprocessing

chapter 5|20 pages

Building data warehouses

chapter 6|30 pages

Basics of materialized views

chapter 7|40 pages

Advances in materialized views

chapter 8|22 pages

Intelligent data analysis

chapter 9|20 pages

Toward integrated OLAP and data mining