Based on a foundation of industry-accepted principles, Building and Maintaininga Data Warehouse provides an easy-to-follow approach that is cohesive and holistic. By offering the perspective of a successful data warehouse, as well as that of a failed one, the author details those factors that must be accomplished and those that are best avoided. He looks at areas of a data warehouse individually and in sequence, showing how each piece becomes a working part of the whole. He examines the concepts and principles common to every successful data warehouse, and also explains how to recognize and attend to problematic gaps in an established data warehouse