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Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemasby Bert Scalzo Download Book If you are the author or the publisher, and would like to link to your site here, please contact us. About Book Book Description This book addresses all aspects of constructing star schemas within Oracle data warehouses, from modeling and design through high-speed loads and lightning fast queries. The book delivers meaningful examples complemented by empirical samples and benchmarks, such that readers will learn more than just the mechanics. This book transforms readers into subject matter experts for dimensional modeling, star schemas and data warehousing in general for the Oracle database environment. This book is based on research conducted for the multi-terabyte data warehouse for the 7-Eleven Corporation. Star schema: a data warehouse design that enhances the performance of multidimensional queries on traditional relational databases. One fact table is surrounded by a series of related tables. Data is joined from one of the points to the center, providing a so called "star query." Previously announced in 2/2003 PTG catalog. From the Back Cover
Oracle DBAs finally have a definitive guide to every aspect of designing, constructing, tuning, and maintaining star schema data warehouses with Oracle 8i and 9i. Bert Scalzo, one of the world's leading Oracle data warehousing experts, offers practical, hard-won lessons and breakthrough techniques for maximizing performance, flexibility, and manageability in any production environment. Coverage includes:
About the Author BERT SCALZO is a product architect for Quest Software. As a member ofthe TOAD development team, he designed many of the features in the TOADDBA module. Scalzo has presented numerous papers on data warehousing andled or served on data warehouse special interest groups at Oracle eventsthroughout the past five years. He has worked for both Oracle Educationand Oracle Consulting, holds several Oracle Masters, a Ph.D. in ComputerScience, an MBA, and several insurance industry designations. Scalzodesigned 7-Eleven's multi-terabyte, star-schema data warehouse. He isauthor of The TOAD Handbook. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. I've written this book with the hope that it will serve as mylifetime technical contribution to my database administrator (DBA)brethren. It contains the sum knowledge and wisdom I've gathered thispast decade, both working on and speaking about data warehousing. Itdoes so purely from the DBA's perspective, solely for the DBA's needsand benefit. While I've worked on many data warehousing projects, my three yearsat Electronic Data Systems (EDS) as the lead DBA for 7-ElevenCorporation's enterprise data warehouse provided my greatest learningexperience. 7-Eleven is a world leader in convenience retailing, withover 21,000 stores worldwide. The 7-Eleven enterprise data warehouse:
While the 7-Eleven enterprise data warehouse may sound impressive,it was not that way from Day One. We started with Oracle 7.2 and a smallHewlett–Packard (HP) K-class server. We felt like genuine explorers aswe charted new territory for both EDS and 7-Eleven. There were fewreference books or white papers at that time with any detailed datawarehousing techniques. Plus, there were few DBAs who had alreadysuccessfully built multi-terabyte data warehouses with whom to network.Fortunately, EDS and 7-Eleven recognized this fact and embraced thetruly iterative nature of data warehousing development. Since you are reading this book, it's safe to assume we can agreethat data warehousing is radically different than traditional onlinetransaction processing (OLTP) applications. Whereas OLTP database andapplication development is generally well-defined and thus easy tocontrol via policies and procedures, data warehousing is more iterativeand experimental. You need the freedom, support, and longevity tointelligently experiment ad-infinitum. With few universal golden rulesto apply, often the method of finding what works best for a given datawarehouse is to:
As Thomas Peters states, "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff.Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works." That's some of thebest advice I can recommend for successfully building a data warehouseas well. PurposeThere are numerous data warehousing books out there, so why is thisone different? Simply put: its DBA focus on implementation details. Infact, the mission statement for this book is: To serve as the DBA's definitive and detailed reference regardingthe successful design, construction, tuning, and maintenance of starschema data warehouses in Oracle 8i and 9i. So how is this different from what's already out there? In general,I've found that most data warehousing books fall into one of threecategories:
Respectively, "best-of-breed" examples for these three categoriesare:
This book, primarily since no other book exists with this kind ofdetailed DBA advice I mean no disrespect to these other categories or their books. Ihighly recommend Kimball's book to anyone new to data warehousing. Anduntil such time as this books debuts, I also highly recommend Dodge'sbook for DBAs. AudienceThis book is intended for physical DBAs--period, end of story. Thisbook assumes an extensive and detailed working knowledge of Oracletechnologies. Moreover, it presumes a keen awareness of hardware andsoftware options--often a skill possessed only by DBAs who also serve asat least the backup operating system (OS) administrator as well. Thatsaid, there are chapters that will be both applicable and beneficial toother members of the data warehousing team. The sections on data modeling define how a DBA should interpret andextrapolate an entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a physicaldatabase design. So, this chapter would assist data modelers andapplication architects to understand how a DBA uses their input tocreate the underlying database structure. Likewise, the sections on staging, promoting, and aggregating datadefine how a DBA should manage objects and processes to mostexpeditiously load massive amounts of data. So, this chapter would beboth educational and inspirational to extract, transform, and load (ETL)programmers tasked with loading a data warehouse. And finally, the chapter on querying the data defines the indices,statistics, and plans necessary to deliver the best possible ad-hocquery runtimes. So, this chapter would assist business intelligencefront-end designers, who can appreciate how the database handles theircomplex, ad-hoc queries.Related Free eBooks
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