Data Acquisition, Replication
Data Warehouse Performance

Create low-cost, high-performance data marts and data warehouses. It is imperative that data warehouse designers and developers learn the right techniques to improve performance of existing systems and build in performance when designing new data marts and warehouses.
Data Warehouse Design Solutions

The authors of Data Warehouse Design Solutions share their expertise in designing successful data warehouses and concentrate on understanding business processes within a variety of industries.
Corporate Information Factory, 2nd Edition

The father of the data warehouse incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems Having invented the corporate information factory (CIF) to help IT and database managers cut through the jungle of information technologies out there, bestselling author Bill Inmon again teams up with experts Claudia Imhoff and Ryan Sousa to show you how to integrate all key components of the modern information system architecture in a way that meets your evolving business needs.
Data Warehouse: From Architecture to Implementation

Devlin helps organize all of the bits and pieces into a (his) well architected view of the subject. The book provides an excellent, well organized overview of DW while providing enough detail to be useful to almost anyone involved in the process of building or maintaining a DW.
The Data Warehouse Challenge: Taming Data Chaos

Now, readers have to pull all data together in a single format that is compatible across the many different databases and software platforms used throughout the company. How? This resource shows them how.
Data Warehousing in the Real World: A Practical Guide for Building Decision Support Systems

Written in "cookbook" format, this book covers all stages of implementation from project planning and requirements analysis, through architecture and design, to administrative issues such as user access, security, and back-up/recovery.
Data Replication: Tools and Techniques for Managing Distributed Information

Today's distributed databases increasingly require the creation and management of multiple copies of the same data. Successfully managing this data is the complex task explored here. After an overview of data replication terms and technologies, this book reviews approaches to data replication offered by new software tools from IBM, Sybase and others.
Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits

Comprehensive guide to measuring and improving information quality both data warehouses, operational databases and source business processes. Provides checklists for quality data definition and information architecture. Describes how to implement an effective information quality environment with data defect prevention. Author provides a money back warranty (page xxvi). Also available in Japanese.
e-Data: Turning Data into Information with Data Warehousing

Reveals what business people should know about data warehouse implementation, as well as techniques for evaluating and justifying new data warehouses and data marts.
Client/Server Data Access With Java and XML

Written by client/server and Java experts in the world, this powerful book/CD package is a vital programming tool for all database developers interested in using Java and XML Web products and technologies for large corporate applications. You'll find out what these products are, how to program them, and how different and competing technologies can work together.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS)

Data Transformation Services in SQL Server 2000 is a powerful tool for moving data. DTS is an easy tool to start using. But there is a lot to learn if you want to take full advantage of the power, the flexibility, and the extensibility of this data transformation tool. This book can help you learn how to make full use of DTS.
Database Data Movement and Replication Software Market Forecast and Analysis, 2001-2005 (PDF download)

This document discusses what the performance of the database data movement and replication (DDMR) market in 2000 was, and what is the forecast through 2005.
Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems (Kluwer International Series on Advances in Database Systems, 4)

Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems organizes and surveys the spectrum of replication protocols and systems that achieve high availability by replicating entities in failure- prone distributed computing environments. The entities discussed in this book vary from passive untyped data objects, to typed and complex objects, to processes and messages. Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems contains definitions and introductory material suitable for a beginner, theoretical foundations and algorithms, an annotated bibliography of commercial and experimental prototype systems, as well as short guides to recommended further readings in specialized subtopics.
Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies

Leverage your legacy systems for competitive business advantage! Your legacy systems embody core business knowledge that is difficult to enhance-but impossible to replicate. You've made enormous investments in these systems. They work. But they were never designed for today's high-speed, Web-centered business environments. The wrong decisions about legacy systems can damage your business-or even destroy it. The right decisions will liberate you to meet tomorrow's business challenges without needless disruption or expense.
Data Mining and Computational Intelligence

Presents a comprehensive look at recent advances in the application of soft computing and fuzzy logic theory to data mining and knowledge discovery databases, focusing on some of the more difficult and as yet unsolvable issues of data mining. These include understandability of patterns and change detection in time series.
Medical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery




