The Official Guide to Informix/Red Brick Data Warehousing - Robert Hocutt - Paperback

The Official Guide to Informix ® /Red Brick ® Build a State-of-the-Art Data Warehouse Data Warehousing Written in collaboration with Informix, this comprehensive guide shows you step-by-step how to harness the power of Red Brick data warehouses - and deliver timely, targeted information to your organization. Robert J. Hocutt, a veteran Red Brick consultant, uses a telecommunications example throughout the book to illustrate the entire lifecycle of a data warehouse project, from planning and design to construction, deployment, and management. Along the way, he explains in detail how to work with Red Brick concepts and tools - including configuration, parallelism, RISQL functions, Vista, and query engine - and maximize the decision-support capabilities of your data warehouse. Proven Solutons to Data Warehousing Challenges Understand data warehouse fundamentals Set up a data warehouse project team and gather business requirements Design dimensional models to organize data for fast retrieval Minimize index space and optimize performance using Red Brick indexing tools and techniques Load data into your data warehouse quickly using TMU and PTMU Harness RISQL functions to answer common business questions SQL can't Boost efficiency with parallel queries on demand Streamline query performance using Vista aggregate navigation Bonus CD-ROM Example data mart, with data and scripts Perl scripts to generate larger data sets Sample forms and documents System Requirements Windows ® NT 4 with Service Pack 3 or higher; Unix, 64MB RAM; VGA Monitor; CD-ROM drive Visit the companion Website at www.redbrickbook.com www.mandtbooks.comJohnson, Diane is the author of 'The Official Guide to Informix/Red Brick Data Warehousing - Robert Hocutt - Paperback' with ISBN 9780764546945 and ISBN 0764546945.