Data warehouse performance

the long version

This book tells you what you need to know to design, build, and manage data warehouses and data marts for optimum performance. Written by an all-star team of data warehouse pioneers and innovators - including Bill Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse," and Ken Rudin, one of the leading experts on performance - the book describes the layers of a high-performance data warehouse environment and guides the reader through their implementation and management. It also supplies proven techniques for supercharging the performance of existing environments.