Somkiat Thaipreecha. Web technology for data warehouse development : on-line analytical processing of student data from Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen campus . Master's Degree(Technology of Information System Management ). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2008.
Web technology for data warehouse development : on-line analytical processing of student data from Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen campus
Abstract:
In this knowledge-based society, the volumes of data are either useful or
useless in supporting decision making. Nowadays, the data warehousing is a powerful
tool to manage these data. In this thesis, the objectives were to study data warehouse
technology in order to find an efficient approach for solving problems, to design and
develop data warehousing with reporting information via web technology and provide
more appropriate information for decision-making, and to apply a suitable data
warehouse for the student data of Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus
(KU.,KPS.)
This study proposes two approaches: the managerial and the technical
approaches, to develop the data warehouse. The focus is on the process of developing
data warehousing by MySQL which is the principal database in this research and the
star schema is a data modeling representation of this database structure. Furthermore, a
three-tier architecture is contained in Kasetsart University Data Warehouse and data
mart are defined by user requirements. At the heart of the technical side of the data
warehousing processing is ETL. OLAP tool of SQL Maestro for MySQL. The main
function of this tool is to roll-up and drill-down data in pivot tables and present all of
these reports on the internet. Moreover, the managerial approach is a key to develop
data warehousing successfully by using MS Project which is a tool for control and
monitoring through this study.
The result reveals that this study is a prototype data warehouse of student
data of KU.,KPS. between 2002 and 2006. All of information is contained in 4
categories: Graduate Students, GPA Range, Grading, and Registration Fee. In
addition, users can utilize various types of reports such as HTML, PDF, and Excel
formats by web technology."