Table of Contents

People and Organizations; Products; Ordering Products; Order Delivery and Invoicing; Work Effort; Accounting and Budgeting; Human Resources; Creating the Data Warehouse Data Model From the Corporate Data Model; A Sample Data Warehouse Data Model; Star Schema Designs for Sales Analysis; Star Schema Designs for Human Resources Analysis; Using These Models in the Real World; Appendices; Index.

About the Author

LEN SILVERSTON (lsilvers@qdbc.com) is President of Quest Database Consulting, Inc. (http: //www.qdbc.com), a Denver-based firm specializing in the delivery of database and data warehouse solutions.

W. H. INMON is the acknowledged "father of the data warehouse" and the founder of Pine Cone Systems, a data warehousing company.

KENT GRAZIANO (kgraziana@qdbc.com) is Director of Data Warehouse Services for Quest Database Consulting, Inc.