Oracle® Database

Data W arehousing Guide

10g Release 1 (10.1)

Part No. B10736-01

December 2003

Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide, 10g Release 1 (10.1)

Part No. B10736-01

Primary Author: Paul Lane

Contributing Autho rs: Viv Schupmann, Ingrid Stuart (Change Data Capture)

Contributors: Patrick Amor, Hermann Baer, Mark Bauer, Subhr ansu Basu, Srikanth Bellamkonda, Randy Bello, Tolga Bozkaya, Lucy Burgess, Rushan Chen, Benoit Dageville, John Haydu, Lilian Hobbs, H akan Jakobsson, George Lumpkin, Alex Melidis, Valarie Moore, Cetin Ozbutun, Ananth Raghavan, Jack Raitto, Ray Roccaforte, Sankar Subr amanian, Gregory Smith, Murali Thiyagarajan, Ashish Thusoo, Thomas Tong, Jean-Francois Verrier, Gary Vincent, Andreas Walter, Andy Wi tkowski, Min Xiao, Tsae-Feng Yu

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