DW Basics Channel

Data warehousing is a foundational practice that supports enterprise reporting, business intelligence and decision support. Data warehouses and data marts are created across levels of sophistication and different philosophical approaches, but typically involve extracting and transforming data from operational/transactional databases and loading it to a repository for shared use and analysis. The DW Basics channel has been created to capture and aggregate stories related to fundamental approaches and practices for creating, managing, utilizing and maintaining a data warehouse.

How to Create a Data Warehouse Success Strategy

A benefit-based approach to a data warehouse project can be boiled down to a list of bullet points

Why Do Data Warehouse Projects Fail?

Why do data warehouse projects fail? The answer lies in the founding perceptions of a project

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Forrester Report: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse

Advances in Data Warehouse Performance

Data Warehousing Buyer's Guide

Data Warehouses: What are they and how will they benefit your organization?

By Guident Technologies, Inc.

Spend Data Warehouse on Steroids

By Zycus

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Implementing Enterprise Data Warehousing

By Alan Schlukbier

The Power of IT: Survival Guide for the CIO

By Jan De Sutter

Implementing a Data Warehouse: A Methodology that Worked

By Bruce R. Ullrey

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• Teradata Launches Data Warehouse Packages
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• Back to the Basics of Data Warehousing
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White Papers

• Forrester Report: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Data Warehousing Buyer's Guide
• Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
• Data Warehouses: What are they and how will they benefit your organization?
• Spend Data Warehouse on Steroids
• More White Papers

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Web Seminars

• Measuring Data Warehouse Performance: WinterCorp's Analysis of the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server
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Books

• Implementing Enterprise Data Warehousing
• The Power of IT: Survival Guide for the CIO
• Implementing a Data Warehouse: A Methodology that Worked
• Professional SQL Server 2005 Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
• Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Manage
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