Fon Silvers graduated from the University of South Florida with an MBA concentrating in Information Systems. He is currently an ETL analyst for a Fortune 500 retail corporation, developing ETL applications for a data warehouse program. In March 2008 Silvers published his first book, Building and Maintaining a Data Warehouse. He may be reached at fon.silvers@verizon.net.

Normalized Changed Data Capture
August 6, 2009 The steps in a normalized CDC of a denormalized dimension

Real Time Data Warehousing, Part 3
September 15, 2008 This third and final article of the series addresses the questions “What causes the biggest headaches?” and...

Real-Time Data Warehousing, Part 2
September 8, 2008 This article addresses the question “How is real time achieved?”

Real-Time Data Warehousing, Part 1
August 27, 2008 Decision-makers in an organization must answer four questions when considering real-time data warehousing

Data Warehouse Capacity Planning as Capacity Enforcement
August 19, 2008 Daily, millions of cars and trucks use a shared resource - the street. We can take some principles from street traffic and...

Murphy’s Laws of Data Warehousing: What Goes Bump in the Night?
August 12, 2008 Murphy’s Law tells us that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. This axiom applies to all aspects of life, including data...

Deming, Data Quality and ETL, Part 2
February 10, 2006 This approach requires a great deal of effort; however, the benefit of including a data quality process in the creation of an...

Deming, Data Quality and ETL, Part 1
February 3, 2006 This first installment of a two-part series will examine common ETL methods that lead to data quality problems and consider...