Managing Metadata in Data Warehouses: Pitfalls and Possibilities
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Managing Metadata in Data Warehouses: Pitfalls and Possibilities
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عنوان ژورنال: Communications of the Association for Information Systems
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1529-3181
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.01413