Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division First Semester 2011-2012 Course Handout

Course No. Course Title Instructors

: SS ZG515 : Data Warehousing : Vikas Singh, Manoj Kumar Saini, T. Sanket Prakash, Yogita Arrawatia

Course Description Introduction, Evolution of data warehousing; decision support systems; goals, benefit, and challenges of data warehousing; architecture; data warehouse information flows; software and hardware requirements; approaches to data warehouse design; creating and maintaining a data warehouse; Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and multi-dimensional data, multi-dimensional modeling; view materialization; data marts; data warehouse metadata; data mining. Scope and Objectives Corporate decision makers require access to all the organizations data, wherever it is located. To provide comprehensive analysis of the organization, its business, its requirements and any trends, require access to not only the current data in the database but also to historical data. To facilitate this type of analysis, data warehouses have been created to contain data drawn from several sources, maintained by different departments of the organization. This course will involve an in-depth study of various concepts needed to design and develop a data warehouse. It also provides an introduction to data mining and end user access tools for a data warehouse. Prescribed Text Book(S)

T1.
T2.

Ponnaiah, Paulraj, Data Warehousing Fundamentals, Wiley-Student Edition, 2001

Kimball R, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, Wiley-Student Edition, 2nd Ed., 2002.

Reference Books

R1. R2. R3.

Kimball R, et. al., The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, John Wiley, 1998. Anahory S, & Dennis M, Data Warehousing in the Real World, Pearson Education, 1997 R Ramakrishnan & J Gehrke, Database Management Systems, MGHISE, 3rd Ed., 2003.

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Course Handout
Learning Objective To understand the need, definition, & applications of a Data Warehouse To understand the Data Warehouse Architecture To learn dimensional modeling for designing database schemas for a Data Warehouse

First Semester 2011-2012

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Plan of Self Study

Week No. 1 2-3 4-5

Topic(s)
Introduction to Data Warehousing

Chapter Reference
T1-Ch. 1

6 7 8

9-10

11 12-13 14 15-16

To understand advanced T1-Ch. 11 Dimensional Modeling concepts To understand the ETL ETL T1-Ch. 12 Process To understand OLAP, its Information Access & OLAP T1-Ch. 14, 15 features, functions, & variations Syllabus for Mid-Semester Test (Closed Book): Topics in Week No. 1 to 8 To understand various Query Performance Enhancing Techniques: T1-Ch. 18 techniques used to Partitioning reduce the query Aggregation response time Bitmap Indexing To understand the role Metadata T1-Ch. 9 of Metadata To understand DW Data Warehouse Project Management T1-Ch. 4-6 Project Management T2-Ch. 16 DW on Web Data Warehouse & the Web T1-Ch. 16 Case Studies Case Studies: CRM, Banks, & Education T2-Ch.6, 9, 12

Data Warehouse Components & Architecture Data Warehouse Design: Dimensional Modeling Case Study: Retail Sales, Inventory, Procurement & Order Management Advanced Issues in Dimensional Modeling

T1-Ch. 2, 7 T2-Ch. 1 T1-Ch. 10 T2-Ch. 1-5

Syllabus for Comprehensive Exam (Open Book): All topics given in Plan of Self Study Evaluation Scheme: EC Evaluation Component & No. Type of Examination EC-1 Assignment/Quiz EC-2 Mid-Semester Test (Closed Book)* EC-3 Comprehensive Exam (Open Book)*

Duration TBA 2 Hours 3 Hours

Weightage 10% 30% 60%

Day, Date, Session,Time TBA Saturday, 03/09/2011 (AN)* 2 PM 4 PM Saturday, 29/10/2011 (AN)* 2 PM 5 PM

* Legend: AN: AfterNoon Session; FN: ForeNoon Session; TBA : To be announced Closed Book Test: No reference material of any kind will be permitted inside the exam hall. Open Book Exam: Use of any printed / written reference material (books and notebooks) will be permitted inside the exam hall. Loose sheets of paper will not be permitted. Computers of any kind will not be allowed inside the exam hall. Use of calculators will be allowed in all exams. No exchange of any material will be allowed.

Note:
It shall be the responsibility of the individual student to be regular in maintaining the self study schedule as given in the course handout, attend the online/on demand lectures as per details that would be put up in the BITS WILP website www.bits-pilani.ac.in/dlp-home and take all the prescribed components of the evaluation such as Mid Semester Test and Comprehensive Examination according to the Evaluation Scheme given in the respective Course Handout. If the student is unable to appear for the Regular Test/Examination due to genuine exigencies, the student must refer to the procedure for applying for Make-up Test/Examination, which will be available through the Important Information link on the BITS WILP website on the date of the Regular Test/Examination. The Make-up Tests/Exams will be conducted only at selected exam centres on the dates to be announced later.

Instructor-in-Charge