Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Citation

Mann, C.J.H. (2003), "Fundamentals of Data Warehouses", Kybernetes, Vol. 32 No. 7/8. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2003.06732gae.009

Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Matthias Jarke, Maurizio Lenzerini, Yannis Vassiliou and Panos VassiliadisSpringer-VerlagLondon, Berlin, Heidelberg2003 2nd ed.i-xiv, 207 pp.ISBN: 3-540-42089-4Eur. 39.95 (net price): £28.00: sFr 68.50, & 44.95 (Hardcover)

This is an extended and revised second edition concerned with a subject that is now demanding a great deal of attention in the interdisciplinary fields of cybernetics and systems. It attracts both practitioners/researchers and those with an interest that extends to matters involving the uses of data warehouses. The publishers report:

...the design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents the first comparative review of the state-of-the-art and best current practice of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimization, update propagation, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimization. Also, based on results of the European Data Warehouse Quality project, it offers a conceptual framework by which the architecture and quality of data warehouse efforts can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata management combined with advanced techniques from databases,

A full review of this edition will be included in the later issues of this journal. Although compiled for researchers and database professionals who work in academia and industry, it promises to be a widely acceptable book and offers an introduction to the issues of quality and metadata usage in the context of data warehouses.

Further details are available from: http://springer.de/cgi/svcat/bag_generate.pl?ISBN=3-540-42089-4.

C.J.H. MannBook Reviews and Reports Editor