Data warehouses are fundamentally different from OLTP (online transaction processing) systems, which are more familiar to developers and database administrators. This book gives you the concepts for understanding, designing, and delivering data warehouses as well as the technical tools for building them with MySQL.7The only book on data warehousing (business reports, queries) aimed at programmers and DBAs wanting to implement MySQL data warehouses, not strictly a database book7Uses real world examples; concise; task-based format, rather than just looking at the technologies involved.