Data Warehousing, Reporting, and Structured Query Language

Catalog description

Focuses on the purpose and design of data warehouses, and the mining and management of patterns in large databases. Offers students the opportunity to learn how organizations construct data warehouses from operational databases, about different data warehouse architectures, how to build a data warehouse, and how to structure databases for efficient data mining. Explains how data warehouses are contributing to decision making, what activities may follow the observations, as well as potential issues that analysts may encounter when dealing with data warehouses. Discusses relational databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) for the fundamentals in data modeling, database management, and SQL queries.