BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING PROGRAMMES DIVISION BITS-WIPRO Collaborative Programme: MS in Software Engineering

SECOND SEMESTER 2011-2012 COURSE HANDOUT Course No. : SEWP ZG514 Title : Data Warehousing Instructors : 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 multidimensional 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. Anahory S, & Dennis M, Data Warehousing in the Real World, Pearson Education, 1997 Kimball R, The Data Warehouse Toolkit, John Wiley, 2nd Ed., 2002.

Reference Books R1. R2. Kimball R, et. al., The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, John Wiley, 1998. R Ramakrishnan & J Gehrke, Database Management Systems, MGHISE, 3rd Ed., 2003.

SEWP ZG514 (Course Handout) Plan of Study

Second Semester 2011-2012

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Week Topic(s) No. 1 Introduction to Data Warehousing 2-3 4-5 6 7 8 9 Data Warehouse Architecture Data Warehouse Design

Chapter Reference T1: Ch 1 T2: Ch 1 T1: Ch 3, 4 T2: Ch 1 T1: Ch 5 T2: Ch 1 T1: Appendix B T2: Ch 2, 3

Accessing the Data Warehouse Case Studies: Retail Sales and Inventory Revisions and review Review Session Syllabus for Mid-Semester Test (Closed Book): Topics in Week No. 1 to 9 10-12 Performance Enhancing Techniques Partitioning Strategy T1: Ch 6 Aggregation T1: Ch 7 13 Data Marting T1: Ch 8 14 Metadata T1: Ch 9 15 Advanced Design Issues Hardware Architecture T1: Ch. 11 Security T1: Ch. 13 Backup and Recovery T1: Ch. 14 Capacity Planning T1: Ch. 17 16 Case Studies Financial Services: Bank T2: Ch. 9, 10,12 Telecom Companies Education 17 Revisions and review 18 Review Session Syllabus for Comprehensive Exam (Open Book): All topics given in Plan of Study Evaluation Scheme: EC Component & Nature No 1. EC-1 Assignment 2. Mid-Semester Test (Closed Book) 3. Compre. Exam (Open Book) Duration * 2 hours 3 hours Weightage 10% 30% 60% Date, Time TBA

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