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Part 2  Conceptual Data Model [Table of Contents] Part 4  Model Presentation

WarehouseArchitect - User's Guide

[-] Part 3 WarehouseArchitect Model

Part 3
WarehouseArchitect Model

This part presents the WarehouseArchitect Model (WAM).

[-] Chapter 11: WarehouseArchitect Model Basics
What is a WAM?
Objects in a WAM
[+] Defining a WAM
Opening an existing PDM
[-] Chapter 12: Building a WarehouseArchitect Model
[+] Defining tables
[+] Defining domains
Specifying an abstract data type
[+] Defining columns
[+] Defining references
[+] Defining keys
[+] Defining indexes
[+] Defining views
[+] Defining extended attributes
Defining default physical options
[-] Chapter 13: Creating Links to Operational Systems
[+] Defining external databases
[+] Importing objects from an external database
[+] Defining external tables
[+] Defining external columns
[+] Defining links to external sources
[+] Editing extraction expressions
Generating an extraction script
[-] Chapter 14: Defining Multidimensional Objects
[+] Defining facts and dimensions
[+] Defining fact tables and dimension tables
[+] Defining metrics and attributes
[+] Defining fact hierarchies and dimension hierarchies
Adding a SQL Cube expression to a fact or metric
Adding a formula to a metric
Retrieving multidimensional objects
[-] Chapter 15: Creating a Multidimensional Model
What is a multidimensional model?
[+] What is the Multidimensional Hierarchy?
[+] Managing objects
[+] Defining facts and dimensions in the Multidimensional Hierarchy
[+] Defining fact hierarchies and dimension hierarchies in the Multidimensional Hierarchy
[+] Defining metrics and attributes in the Multidimensional Hierarchy
Defining an attribute hierarchy
Rebuilding the Multidimensional Hierarchy
[-] Chapter 16: Aggregation and Partitioning
[+] Aggregating a fact
[+] Partitioning a fact
[-] Chapter 17: Generation for OLAP Systems
What is an OLAP system?
Choosing a target OLAP engine
[+] Rebuilding and generating cubes
Generating for PowerDimensions
Generating for Oracle Express
Generating for Essbase
[+] Generating for DSS Agent
Generating for Cognos Impromptu
[+] OLAP extended attributes
[-] Chapter 18: Creating a WAM for Sybase Adaptive Server IQ
Sybase Adaptive Server IQ
Migrating from Sybase IQ to Sybase AS IQ
Selecting the target database
Rebuilding indexes
[+] Defining join indexes
[+] Customizing scripts for join indexes
[+] Generating a Sybase AS IQ database
[-] Chapter 19: Managing WarehouseArchitect Models
[+] Managing users and owners
[+] Checking a WAM
Merging two WAM
Importing an ERwin model into a WAM
[-] Chapter 20: Reverse Engineering
[+] Generating a WAM from an existing database
Generating a WAM from a database creation script
[-] Chapter 21: Triggers and Procedures
What is a trigger?
[+] Using trigger templates
[+] Using template items
[+] Using triggers
[+] Defining stored procedures and functions
[+] Using variables in triggers
[+] Using macros
[+] Generating triggers and procedures
[-] Chapter 22: Database Creation and Modification
[+] Using the ODBC interface
[+] Accessing a database
[+] Computing database size
[+] Configuring tablespace and storage
[+] Customizing scripts
[+] Generating a database
[+] Using test data


Chapter 10:  Generating a WarehouseArchitect Model from a Conceptual Data Model [Table of Contents] Chapter 11:  WarehouseArchitect Model Basics