Part III

Physical Design

This section deals with the physical design of a data warehouse.

It contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 3, "Physical Design in Data Warehouses"

• Chapter 4, "Hardware and I/O Considerations in Data Warehouses"

• Chapter 5, "Partitioning in Data Warehouses"

• Chapter 6, "Parallel Execution in Data Warehouses"

• Chapter 7, "Indexes"

• Chapter 8, "Integrity Constraints"

• Chapter 9, "Basic Materialized Views"

• Chapter 10, "Advanced Materialized Views"

• Chapter 11, "Dimensions"