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, " Parallelism and Partitioning in Data Warehouses"

• Chapter 6, " Indexes"

• Chapter 7, " Integrity Constraints"

• Chapter 8, " Basic Materialized Views"

• Chapter 9, " Advanced Materialized Views"

• Chapter 10, " Dimensions"