Utilizing case studies from a variety of business applications, the authors present dimensional modeling techniques for data warehousing. Emphasizing user understandability and query performance, chapters cover techniques in the areas of retail sales , inventory, procurement, order management, customer relationship management, accounting, human resource management, financial services, telecommunications and utilities, transportation, education, health care, electronic commerce, and insurance. Final chapters discuss the construction of the data warehouse framework and future trends.

利用各种商业应用的案例研究，作者介绍了数据仓库的维度建模技术。各章强调了用户的可理解性和查询性能，涵盖了零售、库存、采购、订单管理、客户关系管理、会计、人力资源管理、金融服务、电信和公用事业、运输、教育、医疗保健、电子商务和保险等领域的技术。最后几章讨论了数据仓库框架的构建和未来趋势。