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Data Warehouse: Chapter-22 Jawdekar

The document discusses data warehouses and their purpose. It defines a data warehouse as a collection of non-volatile data from different business sources that is time-variant, integrated from various sources and applications, and stored to enable quick analysis of the business situation. It describes how a data warehouse collects and stores historical data to provide analytical information to support strategic decision making for management, knowledge workers, and operational staff. The data warehouse collects, filters, validates, transforms, and loads data from transaction systems, operational databases, and external sources to consolidate it and support analysis.

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Data Warehouse: Chapter-22 Jawdekar

The document discusses data warehouses and their purpose. It defines a data warehouse as a collection of non-volatile data from different business sources that is time-variant, integrated from various sources and applications, and stored to enable quick analysis of the business situation. It describes how a data warehouse collects and stores historical data to provide analytical information to support strategic decision making for management, knowledge workers, and operational staff. The data warehouse collects, filters, validates, transforms, and loads data from transaction systems, operational databases, and external sources to consolidate it and support analysis.

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Data Warehouse

Chapter-22 Jawdekar

Introduction:
Three kinds of information users: - the management requires analytical information support to make strategic decisions - knowledge workers middle management information obtained from internal and external sources - operational staff dependent on TPS

Business, -more competitive -involves risk Decision making is not -atomic -local -functional But it is larger in scope and content. It requires data and information from -organization and -external sources

Definition:
A collection of non-volatile data of different business subjects and objects, which are time variant and integrated drawn from various sources and applications and stored in a manner to make a quick analysis of business situation.

TPS

APS

DBS

DCS

ENDUSERS VIEW

Application systems

Database Operational data MGMT


Knowledge worker

TPS

Application systems

Middleware

Database WH

Op. staff Application systems

External Database Op. data

Concept of data warehouse


TPS=transaction processing systems, APS=Application processing system, DBS= database system, DCS=data conversion system, DWS=data warehouse system

Legacy database

Middleware

Operational database

Data warehouse Business data

External database

Conversion process Select Filter Validate Transform Compute Consolidate Move to data warehouse

DWS

Operational Architecture

Middleware
Set of programs and routines - pulls data from various sources - checks and validates - moves it from one platform to other - transforms to the DW design specs - loads in the DW

Application tools Report writers Data visualization tools Query tools

Views in tables DW Patterns & trends

Middleware System Conversion


Ex.DB
TPS-sales Production Purchase

Intr. DB Accounts Inventory Purchase Production Sales report

Inventory
Accounting

Op. Business Data related To various functions

Physical view of a data warehouse

Characteristics of DW:
- Scope is in whole organization - Contains historical records created from existing applications - enables to take up business view, application view and physical view from point in time. - provides decision support

Data in Data warehouse


Data in data warehouse is termed as business data. Business data has business value Eg: Sales application - quantity, region, discounts, period, sales representitve, customer etc., but to data warehouse only - quantity, region, sales representative enters Air Ticketing appln., - only frequent fliers data enters for decision

Three category of data:


Current data in the view of business at the present time Point-in-time data A snap shot of business data at a particular moment in time indiacating the business status at that point of time Periodic data Represents business data by periods such as last three years etc.,

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