March 2009
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
8h 40m
English
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Chapter 31. Ten Mandatory Skills for a Data Warehousing Consultant
In This Chapter
Knowing a little about a lot of data warehousing topics
Knowing a lot about a few data warehousing topics
Working well and effectively with the people in your organization
Having access to up-to-date information
Using a hype-free vocabulary
A good data warehousing consultant has certain abilities in dealing with people and a knowledge of various aspects of data warehousing. This chapter lets you in on a few required skills that all data warehousing consultants should possess.
Broad Vision
Even a data warehousing consultant who's an expert in a particular area (star schema design in a relational database in support of OLAP functionality, for example) should have a broad vision in at least these areas:
Overall end-to-end data warehousing architecture, from tools to middleware to data quality to orchestration software
An understanding of client/server, Web-based, and server-side computing architectures
A firm understanding of database optimization concepts for tuning data access queries
Skills in digging through data sources to see what's really there
Because the components of a data warehousing environment are interrelated, a consultant must be able to not only provide technical expertise in one or two areas of a project (as discussed in the following section), but also see the big picture.
Deep Technical Expertise in One or Two Areas
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