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What Is A Data Warehouse?

A data warehouse is a collection of corporate data derived from operational systems and external sources. It provides transformed and summarized data to meet reporting and analysis needs that operational systems cannot support. A data warehouse functions by collecting, storing, analyzing, and consuming data. It evolves data marts that are subsets focused on specific business lines like sales or finance. The key components are a load manager for extraction/loading, a warehouse manager for data management, and a query manager for user queries.

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What Is A Data Warehouse?

A data warehouse is a collection of corporate data derived from operational systems and external sources. It provides transformed and summarized data to meet reporting and analysis needs that operational systems cannot support. A data warehouse functions by collecting, storing, analyzing, and consuming data. It evolves data marts that are subsets focused on specific business lines like sales or finance. The key components are a load manager for extraction/loading, a warehouse manager for data management, and a query manager for user queries.

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PRE 6 | DATA WAREHOUSING AND MANAGEMENT 2.

Operational Data Store - which is also called ODS,


CHAPTER 1 are nothing but data store required when neither
Data warehouse nor OLTP systems support
WHAT IS A DATA WAREHOUSE? organizations reporting needs. In ODS, Data
● is a collection of corporate information, derived warehouse is refreshed in real time. Hence, it is
directly from operational system and some widely preferred for routine activities like storing
external data sources. records of the Employees.
● is a relational database management system
(RDBMS) designed specifically to meet the 3. Data Mart - is a subset of the data warehouse. It
needs of transaction processing system. specially designed for a particular line of business,
● provides data that is already transformed and such as sales, finance, sales or finance. In an
summarized. independent data mart, data can collect directly
from sources.
STEPS ON HOW A DATA WAREHOUSE FUNCTIONS:
1. Collect COMPONENTS OF A DATA WAREHOUSE
2. Store ● Load Manager - is also called the front
3. Analyze component. It performs with all the operations
4. Consume associated with the extraction and load of data
into the warehouse. These operations include
FEATURES OF A DATA WAREHOUSE transformations to prepare the data for
•SUBJECT-ORIENTED entering into the Data warehouse.
•INTEGRATED ● Warehouse Manager - performs operations
•TIME-VARIANT associated with the management of the data in
•NONVOLATILE the warehouse. It performs operations like
•SUMMARIZED analysis of data to ensure consistency, creation
of indexes and views, generation of
EVOLUTION OF DATA WAREHOUSING denormalization and aggregations,
● 1960- Dartmouth and General Mills in a joint transformation and merging of source data and
research project, develop the terms dimensions archiving and backing-up data.
and facts. ● Query Manager - is also known as backend
● 1970- A Nielsen and IRI introduces dimensional component. It performs all the operations
data marts for retail sales. related to the management of user queries. The
● 1983- Tera Data Corporation introduces a operations of this Data warehouse components
database management system which is are direct queries to the appropriate tables for
specifically designed for decision support scheduling the execution of queries.
● Data warehousing started in the late 1980s ● End-user access tools:
when IBM worker Paul Murphy and Barry Devlin This is categorized into five different groups
developed the Business Data Warehouse. like:
● However, the real concept was given by Inmon 1. Data Reporting
Bill. He was considered as a father of data 2. Query Tools
warehouse. He had written about a variety of 3. Application development tools
topics for building, usage, and maintenance of 4. EIS (Executive Information System) tools
the warehouse & the Corporate Information 5. OLAP tools and datamining tools.
Factory.

TYPES OF DATA WAREHOUSE


1. Enterprise Data Warehouse - is a centralized
warehouse. It provides decision support service
across the enterprise. It offers a unified approach
for organizing and representing data. It also provide
the ability to classify data according to the subject
and give access according to those divisions.

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