\u201cThis book should satisfy those who want a different perspective than the official Oracle documentation. It will cover all important aspects of a data warehouse while giving the necessary examples to make the reading a lively experience.\u201d - Tim Donar, Author and Systems Architect  for Enterprise Data Warehouses  Tuning a data warehouse database focuses on large  transactions, mostly requiring what is known as throughput. Throughput is the passing of large amounts of information through a server, network  and Internet environment, backwards and forwards, constantly! The ultimate objective of a data warehouse is the production of meaningful and useful reporting, from historical and archived data. The trick is to make the reports print within an acceptable time frame.