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Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Th 5:30p.m. – 8:15p.m.
McCormack M01-0209 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
Th 5:30p.m. – 8:15p.m.
Location
McCormack M01-0209
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

this course provides students with the technical skills required to plan and implement a data warehouse using a database management system. It describes basic data warehousing concepts. The course covers design and implementation of data marts and operational data stores. Topics include dimensional data modeling for warehouses, CUBES and storage modes including MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP, and data warehousing infrastructure and analytical service tool selection. This course involves designing a data warehousing system and the implementation of a database with a stare schema, gathering data from primary data sources, transforming data, and loading it into a database management system. Students create cubes using OLAP and analyze cube data using client application.

Prerequisites

IT 110 or MSIS 110 and IT/MSIS 230L or MSIS 411

This course is closed for registration.

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