The Unified Star Schema: An Agile and Resilient Approach to Data Warehouse and Analytics Design
Inmon, Bill; Puppini, Francesco
Language: English
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- Title
- The Unified Star Schema: An Agile and Resilient Approach to Data Warehouse and Analytics Design
- Author
- Inmon, Bill; Puppini, Francesco
- Publisher
- Technics Publications (edition )
- Publication year
- 2020
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- New
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 163462887X
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- 9781634628877
Data warehouse legend Bill Inmon and data warehouse expert, Francesco Puppini, explain step-by-step, why the USS approach is the preferred approach for business intelligence designs today, and how to use this approach through many examples.
This book contains two parts. Part I, Architecture, explains the benefits of data marts and data warehouses, covering how organizations progressed to their current state of analytics, and to the challenges that result from current business intelligence architectures. Chapter 1 covers the drivers behind and the characteristics of the data warehouse and data mart. Chapter 2 introduces dimensional modeling concepts, including fact tables, dimensions, star joins, and snowflakes. Chapter 3 recalls the evolution of the data mart. Chapter 4 explains Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL), and the value ETL brings to reporting. Chapter 5 explores the Integrated Data Mart Approach, and Chapter 6 explains how to monitor this environment. Chapter 7 describes the different types of metadata within the data warehouse environment. Chapter 8 progresses through the evolution to our current modern data warehouse environment. Part II, the Unified Star Schema, covers the Unified Star Schema (USS) approach and how it solves the challenges introduced in Part I. There are eight chapters within Part II:
- Chapter 9, Introduction to the Unified Star Schema: Learn about its architecture and use cases, as well as how the USS approach differs from the traditional approach.
- Chapter 10, Loss of Data: Learn about the loss of data and the USS Bridge. Understand that the USS approach does not create any join, and for this reason, it has no loss of data.
- Chapter 11, The Fan Trap: Get introduced to the Oriented Data Model convention, and learn the dangers of a fan trap through an example. Differentiate join and association, and realize that an "in-memory association" is the preferred solution to the fan trap.
- Chapter 12, The Chasm Trap: Become familiar with the Cartesian product, and then follow along with an example based on LinkedIn, which illustrates that a chasm trap produces unwanted duplicates. See that the USS Bridge is based on a union, which does not create any duplicates.
- Chapter 13, Multi-Fact Queries: Distinguish between multiple facts "with direct connection" versus multiple facts "with no direct connection". Explore how BI tools are capable of building aggregated virtual rows.
- Chapter 14, Loops: Learn more about loops and five traditional techniques to solve them. Follow along with an implementation, which will illustrate the solution based on the USS approach.
- Chapter 15, Non-Conformed Granularities: Learn about non-conformed granularities, and learn that the Unified Star Schema introduces a solution called "re-normalization".
- Chapter 16, Northwind Case Study. Witness how easy it is to detect the pitfalls of Northwind using the ODM convention. Follow along with an implementation of the USS approach on the Northwind database with various BI tools.
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About the Author
Francesco Puppini is an Italian freelance consultant in business intelligence and data warehousing. He has worked on over 30 different projects across ten European countries, for clients from several industry sectors. He is currently working as a Qlik specialist, after 18 years spent on Business Objects, SQL, Teradata, and data modeling.
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