Data Warehousing

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extended discussion of politics there is in the data
warehousing literature. As of the writing of this paper, to the best of my
knowledge, that situation still has not changed. This in unfortunate
because ambitious data warehousing projects are rife with political issues.


My working definition of a data warehousing "political issue" is a
situation where the equally valid and reasonable goals and interests of two
or more parties collide with each other. That is, these are situations
where there is great potential for conflict. Though these issues can appear
minor and even petty, they can account for a good portion of the mental
wear and tear experienced by data warehouse developers.

In this paper, I have classified the political issues into those
that are within the IS organization (IS to IS), those that are between IS
and the users (IS to Users), and those that are between users (User to
User).

Finally, in this paper I try to list the political issues that are
peculiar to data ...

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development group can lessen knowledge
transfer and appreciation of how to make data warehouses industrial safe.

Who Should Administer The Data Warehousing Databases - The DBA Group Or The
Data Warehousing Development Group

The need to make data warehouse database structure changes can be
relatively frequent. Proliferating data marts, uncertainty about usage
patterns, and the "I'll know what I want when I see it" nature of data
warehouse development can necessitate table and index changes. Data
warehouse developers, concerned about losing the favor and interest of data
warehouse users, want changes made quickly and get quite frustrated being
put on the DBA backlog. On the other ...

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