This book teaches you DBAs about conceptual ideas surronding data warehouses and fundamental design decisions. You’ll learn to make these design decisions, as well as identify, diagnose, and solve perfomance bottlenecks. This book will show all of the new Oracle 10g warehousing features, and will help you make informed decisions about efficiently immplementing a data warehouse in a real world setting, and tuning an existing data warehouse for optimal performance. TOC:Chapter 01: Introduction to Data Warehousing
Chapter 02: Design
Chapter 03: ETL
Chapter 04: Partitioning
Chapter 05: Data marts
Chapter 06: Parallel execution
Chapter 07: Queries
Chapter 08: Maintenance
Chapter 09: Advanced 10g New Features
April Wells