This section deals with the physical design of a data warehouse.

It contains the following chapters:

• Basic Materialized Views

• Advanced Materialized Views

• Refreshing Materialized Views

• Synchronous Refresh

• Monitoring Materialized View Refresh Operations

• Dimensions

• Basic Query Rewrite for Materialized Views

• Advanced Query Rewrite for Materialized Views

• Attribute Clustering

• Using Zone Maps