Data Mining and Data Warehousing is the recent trend in IT field but still it is widely used in various areas.

This book introduces basic as well as advanced techniques of data mining & brief information about data warehousing. The book also contains some advanced software tools which are really helpful for students.

In this book I tried to explain all the techniques and concepts of the data mining & data warehousing, in very simplified & descriptive way which can help to the student for there examination preparation as well as technical improvement.

We are grateful to several institutions, libraries, friends and associates for generous assistance in helping us write this book. We are indebted to various authors who have been referred in giving this book the present shape.

We grateful acknowledge the support, encouragement, and patience of our families.

We express our heart filled thanks to Horizon book Publishers for the careful printing of this book.

We humbly welcome comments and suggestions regarding the book for further enrichment.

Last but not the least, flawed statements or interpretation, if any, in the present work may be credited to the authors of the book and to nobody else.

Dr. Sagar S. Jambhorkar

Vijay S. Jondhale