This chapter shows how to use SQL to implement the dimensional data model that Building a Dimensional Data Model describes. Remember that this database serves only as an illustrative example of a data-warehousing environment. For the sake of the example, it is translated into SQL statements.
This chapter describes the sales_demo database, which is available with Extended Parallel Server. This chapter also describes the special table types and indexes available with Extended Parallel Server that are suited to the needs of data warehousing and other very large database applications.
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