This book addresses all aspects of constructing star schemas within Oracle data warehouses, from modeling and design through high-speed loads and lightning fast queries. The book delivers meaningful examples complemented by empirical samples and benchmarks, such that readers will learn more than just the mechanics. This book transforms readers into subject matter experts for dimensional modeling, star schemas and data warehousing in general for the Oracle database environment. This book is based on research conducted for the multi-terabyte data warehouse for the 7-Eleven Corporation. Star schema: a data warehouse design that enhances the performance of multidimensional queries on traditional relational databases. One fact table is surrounded by a series of related tables. Data is joined from one of the points to the center, providing a so called "star query." Previously announced in 2/2003 PTG catalog.
BERT SCALZO is a product architect for Quest Software. As a member ofthe TOAD development team, he designed many of the features in the TOADDBA module. Scalzo has presented numerous papers on data warehousing andled or served on data warehouse special interest groups at Oracle eventsthroughout the past five years. He has worked for both Oracle Educationand Oracle Consulting, holds several Oracle Masters, a Ph.D. in ComputerScience, an MBA, and several insurance industry designations. Scalzodesigned 7-Eleven's multi-terabyte, star-schema data warehouse. He isauthor of The TOAD Handbook.