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Multidimensional Databases: Problems and Solutions

ISBN: 1591400538
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 150

Authors: Maurizio Rafanelli

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Multidimensional Databases--Problems and Solutions
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter I: Basic Notions
• THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL AGGREGATE DATA STRUCTURE
• DIFFERENT USE OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA: OLAP APPLICATIONS
• MULTIDIMENSIONAL AGGREGATE DATA
• REPRESENTING AND INTERPRETING NULLS IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL AGGREGATE DATA
• GRAPH MODELS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter II: Multidimensionality in Statistical, OLAP, and Scientific Databases
• SUMMARY DATABASES
• SCIENTIFIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES
• REFERENCES
• Chapter III: Conceptual Multidimensional Models
• BACKGROUND AND TERMINOLOGY
• A CONCEPTUAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL
• AN OVERVIEW OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODELS
• FUTURE TRENDS AND CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter IV: Hierarchies
• CHARACTERIZATION OF HIERARCHIES
• CHARACTERIZATION OF OLAP OPERATORS ON HIERARCHIES
• AN ENLARGEMENT OF OPERATORS FOR HIERARCHIES
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter V: Operators for Multidimensional Aggregate Data
• OPERATORS FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL AGGREGATE DATA WHICH EXTEND RELATIONAL ALGEBRA AND RELATIONAL CALCULUS
• OPERATORS FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL AGGREGATE DATA DEFINED IN A TABULAR ENVIRONMENT
• OPERATORS FOR OLAP APPLICATIONS
• THE BASIC ALGEBRA FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL AGGREGATE DATA
• SUMMARIZATION
• MACRO-UNION
• MACRO-SELECT
• RESTRICTION
• RECLASSIFICATION
• COMPARISON
• ROLL-UP
• GROUP-BY
• DRILL-DOWN
• PUSH
• PULL
• DATA CUBE
• AGGREGATE FORMATION
• AGGREGATION-BY-TEMPLATE
• PACK
• UNPACK
• DIFFERENCE
• DUPLICATE REMOVAL
• SQL-LIKE AGGREGATION
• JOIN
• FOLD
• UNFOLD
• REFERENCES
• Chapter VI: Time in Multidimensional Databases
• EXAMPLE
• BACKGROUND
• THE TEMPORAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
• ENDNOTES
• Chapter VII: Dynamic Multidimensional Data Cubes
• BACKGROUND
• DATA CUBES FOR INVERTIBLE AGGREGATE OPERATORS
• DATA CUBES FOR OTHER AGGREGATE OPERATORS
• SPARSE DATA SETS
• THE DATA CUBE OPERATOR CUBE
• CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE TRENDS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter VIII: Materialized Views in Multidimensional Databases
• MATERIALIZED VIEWS
• MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES
• MAINTENANCE OF MATERIALIZED VIEWS
• FINDING THE OPTIMAL SET OF MATERIALIZATIONS
• COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter IX: Querying Multidimensional Data
• BACKGROUND
• KEY FEATURES OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL QUERYING
• QUERY LANGUAGES BASED ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELS
• MULTIDIMENSIONAL QUERY EVALUATION
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter X: Incomplete Information in Multidimensional Databases
• BACKGROUND
• INCOMPLETE INFORMATION IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• INCOMPLETE INFORMATION IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES
• TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING INCOMPLETENESS
• INCOMPLETE MEASURES
• INCOMPLETE GROUPING ATTRIBUTES
• INCOMPLETE INFORMATION IN THE HIERARCHY
• INCOMPLETE METADATA
• FUTURE TRENDS
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
• Chapter XI: Privacy in Multidimensional Databases
• ADDITIVE QUERIES
• THE USER S INFERENCE MODEL
• GRAPHICAL QUERY SETS
• SAFETY
• AN AUDITING PROCEDURE
• TWO-DIMENSIONAL TABLES
• FUTURE DIRECTIONS
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter XII: Source Integration for Data Warehousing
• BACKGROUND
• SCHEMA INTEGRATION
• DATA INTEGRATION
• DATA CLEANING AND RECONCILIATION
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter XIII: Cooperation with Geographic Databases
• FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GEOGRAPHIC DATABASES
• BASIC NOTIONS
• MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA
• RELATED WORKS
• COOPERATION BY BINDING ELEMENTS
• INFERRING BINDING ATTRIBUTES
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• Index
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I-J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Sidebars