DATA WAREHOUSING

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What is Data Warehousing? Need of using Data Warehouse Comparison with OLTP Database Data Marts Star Schema Benefits of Star Schema

What is Data Warehousing?

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Warehousing (DW) is subjectoriented, integrated, time-variant, and non-volatile collection of data in support of managements decision-making process. It is used to integrate enterprise wide corporate data into a single repository from which users can easily run queries.

Need of using Data Warehouse

The

potential benefits of data warehousing are high returns on investment. Increased productivity of corporate decision-makers. Substantial competitive advantage. Off shoring of your corporate data.

Comparison with OLTP Database

OLTP systems Data warehousing systems Hold current data Holds historical data Stores detailed data Stores detailed, lightly, and Data is dynamic highly summarized data High level of transaction Data is largely static throughput Subject-oriented Application-orented supports strategic decisions Supports day-to-day decisions Serves relatively low number Serves large number of users of managerial users

Data Marts
Data mart refers to a subset of a data warehouse that supports the requirements of a particular department or a business function A Data Mart focuses on only the requirements of users associated with one department or business function Data Marts do not normally contain detailed operational data, unlike data warehouses

Fact Table
Fact Table is a structure that contains all the basic, yet important data used to build the Data Warehouse.

Dimension Table
Dimension table contains the actual records describing the dimensional characters of the Product that we are about to analyze / report / work with.

Star Schema

The star schema is a relational database schema organized around a central table. The Central table is known as a Fact Table. The points on the star are the Dimension tables. The terms dimensional model and star schema can be used interchangeably.

Benefits of Star Schema

Transforms normalized data into a simpler model Delivers high-performance queries Delivers higher performing queries using Star Join Query Optimization Uses mature modeling techniques that are widely supported by many BI tools Requires low maintenance as the data warehouse design evolves

A Multidimensional strucure..