Successfully implement Data Warehouse solutions with blueprints. This book provides an overview of a typical Data Warehouse architecture and demonstrates, through numerous best practice examples, how to realize and operate the individual components of a Data Warehouse. Scalability, performance, and integration are the key success factors. A compact and competent guide for your project. Why is a staging area necessary? How should missing or erroneous data be handled during the loading process? Is it more practical to create one or multiple data marts? Where are the data from various sources integrated, and how should they be historized? You will find answers to these and many other questions, along with practical tips and tricks. Valuable know-how from practice. Benefit from years of experience.