What This Book Is About and What It Is Not

Dimensional Data Warehousing with MySQL, is a practical book. You will use MySQL, but this book is not about MySQL. The book does not discuss hardware infrastructural aspects either.

The focus of this book is on data warehouse design and development techniques. The book however is not about techniques on managing development projects, development methodologies, or leading developments.

The book uses an example data warehouse development to show the implementation of the techniques. The data model and the SQL scripts are included and can be adapted to be used in real-world data warehouse development. The scripts have been tested on MySQL 5.0.21 running on Windows XP Professional SP2.

In addition, this book does not specifically discuss the following topics.

• The concepts of data warehousing

• SQL

• MySQL