Wednesday 4 January 2012

What is Data Warehousing ?


What is Data Warehousing?

-          Data Warehousing is an OLAP database which stores current data and historical data. It is a centralized proposed system and a decision making system which is used by the organization to analyze their business.

-          According to Inmon,
" A Data Warehousing is a subject oriented, Integrated, Time Variant, Non Volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process ".

-          A Data Warehousing is a relational database which is designed for Query and Analysis rather than transaction processing. It usually contains historical data derived from transaction data, but it can include data from other sources.
It separates Analysis workload from transaction workload and Organization to consolidate the data from several sources.

-          A Data Warehouse is a copy of transaction data specifically structured for querying and reporting.

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