Market_Desc: · IT, Database, and Data Warehouse Managers and Developers Special Features: · Building the Data Warehouse has sold nearly 40,000 copies in its first 3 editions· Inmon is widely recognized as the Father of the Data Warehouse and remains one of the two leading authorities in the industry he helped to invent· The new edition covers new approaches and technologies, many of which have been pioneered by Inmon himself· Price of this new edition will be reduced from $65 to $55, and 100 new pages added About The Book: This book provides a high-level, conceptual overview of the major components of data warehouse systems, as well as the core approaches used to design and build data warehouses. Topics covered in this book are methods for handling unstructured data in a data warehouse, storing data across multiple storage media, the pros and cons of relational vs. multidimensional design, data monitoring and testing.