Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

The Wal-Mart data warehouse is still the world's largest, most famous, and most ambitious commercial database. Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model is a practical guide to both the business and technical aspects of building a data warehouse for storing and accessing data in a strategically useful way.

Two things really set this book apart. One, it is the only resource to focus on the special data needs of retail businesses -- including both the market issues that make the data important and the organizational issues that affect the data's collection and use. Two, it focuses explicitly and comprehensively on the development of the Wal-Mart data warehouse, showing readers how the same principles that drove this enormous project can be applied in other projects, large and small.