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This document defines and describes key concepts related to data warehousing. It begins by providing Inmon's definition of a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It then discusses how a data warehouse is organized around subjects, integrates data from multiple sources, provides a historical perspective, and cannot be updated once data is recorded. The document contrasts online transaction processing (OLTP) with online analytical processing (OLAP) and describes the strengths of OLAP for analysis. It positions a data warehouse as a specialized database to support analysis rather than transactions.

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Data Warehouse: by Linda Ndarurinze 0 9 0 3 0 1 2 1 0 7 0

This document defines and describes key concepts related to data warehousing. It begins by providing Inmon's definition of a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It then discusses how a data warehouse is organized around subjects, integrates data from multiple sources, provides a historical perspective, and cannot be updated once data is recorded. The document contrasts online transaction processing (OLTP) with online analytical processing (OLAP) and describes the strengths of OLAP for analysis. It positions a data warehouse as a specialized database to support analysis rather than transactions.

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Data Warehouse

BY LINDA NDARURINZE
09030121070
What is Data Warehouse??
Inmons’s definition

A data warehouse is
-subject-oriented,
-integrated,
-time-variant,
-nonvolatile
collection of data in support of
management’s
decision making process.
Subject-oriented
- Data warehouse is organized around
subjects such as sales ,product
,customer.
- It focuses on modeling and analysis
of data for decision makers.

- Excludes data not useful in decision


support process.
Integration
• Data Warehouse is constructed by
integrating multiple heterogeneous
sources.

• Data Preprocessing are applied to ensure


consistency.
Integration….
In terms of data.
-encoding structures.

-Measurement of
attributes.

-physical attribute.
of data

-naming conventions.

-Data type format


Time-variant
-Provides information from historical
perspective e.g. past 5-10 years

-Every key structure contains either


implicitly or explicitly an element of
time
Nonvolatile

-Data once recorded cannot be updated.

-Data warehouse requires two operations


in data accessing

*Initial loading of data

*Access of data
Why a warehouse???
The Warehousing Approach
· Information integrated in Clients

advance
· Stored in warehouse for Data
Warehouse
direct querying and
analysis
Integration System Metadata

...

Extractor/ Extractor/ Extractor/


Monitor Monitor Monitor

...
Source Source Source
Advantages of Warehousing Approach

-High query performance


*But not necessarily most current information
-Doesn’t interfere with local processing at
sources
*Complex queries at warehouse
*OLTP at information sources
-Information copied at warehouse
*Can modify, annotate, summarize,
restructure, etc.
*Can store historical information
*Security, no auditing
-Has caught on in industry
Components of Data Warehouse

-Source Data
-Data Staging(Data Extraction, cleaning And
Loading)
-Data Storage
-Information Delivery
-Metadata
-Management and control
OLTP vs. OLAP

· OLTP: On Line Transaction Processing


- Describes processing at operational sites
· OLAP: On Line Analytical Processing
- Describes processing at warehouse
Strengths of OLAP

-It is a powerful visualization


paradigm
-It provides fast, interactive response
times
-It is good for analyzing time series
-It can be useful to find some
clusters and outliers
-Many vendors offer OLAP tools
OLAP Is FASMI

-Fast
-Analysis
-Shared
-Multidimensional
-Information
Warehouse is a Specialized DB

Standard DB (OLTP) Warehouse (OLAP)


-Application Oriented -Subject Oriented
-Used to Run Business -Used to analyze business
-Detailed data -Summarized and refined
-Current up-to date -Snapshot Data
-Isolated data -Integrated Data
-Repetitive Access -Ad-Hoc Access
-Performance Sensitive -Performance relaxed
-Few records accessed -Large vol accessed at a
-Read/Update Access time
-Mostly Read
To Summarize…

-OLTP Systems are used to “RUN” a


business
-The Data warehouse helps to optimize
the business.
Thank you…

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