The definitive, real-world guide to Oracle data warehousing
Maximizing performance, flexibility, and manageability in production environments
Hardware/software architectures, star schema design, partitioning, and more
Industrial strength data loading and query optimization techniques
By the world-renowned architect of 7-Eleven's multi-terabyte datawarehouse
Maximize Oracle data warehouse performance, flexibility, and manageability
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:
Data warehousing fundamentals for DBAs--including what a data warehouse isn't
Planning software architecture: business intelligence, user interfaces, Oracle versions, OS platforms, and more
Planning hardware architecture: CPUs, memory, disk space, and configuration
Radically different star schema design for radically improved performance
Tuning ad-hoc queries for lightning speed Industrial-strength data loading techniques
Aggregate tables: maximizing performance benefits, minimizing complexity tradeoffs
Improving manageability: The right ways to partition
Data warehouse administration: Backup/recovery, space and extent management, updates, patches, and more