Oracle Tips  by Burleson Consulting

The Data Warehouse Development Life Cycle

Summary

Now that we have covered the basic tasks involved in the logical analysis of data warehouses, we are ready to proceed into a discussion of the physical design phase. In the next chapter, we’ll apply physical constructs to our logical data model, and we will begin to look at Oracle-specific design techniques for fast data loading and retrieval.

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