BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI

Work Integrated Learning Programme (DLPD)

BITS-Satyam Collaborative Programme: M.S. Software Engineering

at Satyam Comp. Services Ltd., Hyderabad
I SEMESTER 2007-2008
COURSE HANDOUT

Course No. : SESL ZG514

Title : Data Warehousing
Instructors : Prof. A. Govardhan govardhan_cse@yahoo.co.in

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 organization’s 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. Anahory S, & Dennis M, “Data Warehousing in the Real World”, Pearson Education,
1997

T2. Kimball R, “The Data Warehouse Toolkit”, John Wiley, 2nd Ed., 2002.

Reference Books

R1. Kimball R, et. al., “The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit”, John Wiley, 1998.

R2. R Ramakrishnan & J Gehrke, Database Management Systems, MGHISE, 3rd Ed., 2003.
Plan of Study

Week Topic(s) Chapter Reference

No.
1 Introduction to Data Warehousing T1: Ch 1
T2: Ch 1
2-3 Data Warehouse Architecture T1: Ch 3, 4
T2: Ch 1
4-6 Data Warehouse Design T1: Ch 5
T2: Ch 1
7 Accessing the Data Warehouse T1: Appendix B
8 Case Studies: Retail Sales and Inventory T2: Ch 2, 3
Syllabus for Mid-Semester Test (Closed Book): Topics in Week No. 1 to 8
9-11 Performance Enhancing Techniques
• Partitioning Strategy T1: Ch 6
• Aggregation T1: Ch 7
12 Data Marting T1: Ch 8
13 Metadata T1: Ch 9
14 Advanced Design Issues
• Hardware Architecture T1: Ch. 11
• Security T1: Ch. 13
• Backup and Recovery T1: Ch. 14
• Capacity Planning T1: Ch. 17
15-16 Case Studies
• Financial Services: Bank T2: Ch. 9, 10,12
• Telecom Companies
• Education
Syllabus for Comprehensive Exam (Closed Book): All topics given in Plan of Study

Evaluation Scheme:
EC Component & Nature Duration Weightage Date and Time
No
1. Mid-Semester Test(Closed Book) 2 hrs 30% Oct 06, 2007 (FN)
10am to 12 pm
2. Compre. Exam (Closed Book) 3 hrs 40% Dec 22, 2007 (FN)
9am to 12pm
3. Surprise Quizzes -2 Nos.( Best of the 1 Hour 15%
Two is taken)
4. Home Assignment – 2Nos. (Average 15%
is taken)