2. Contents
Introduction to Data Warehouse
Features of a Data Warehouse
OLTP vs. OLAP (Transactional vs.
Analytical)
Introduction to Dimensional Modeling
◦Fact Tables
◦Dimension Tables
◦Star Schema
◦Snow Flake Schema
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3. What is a Data Warehouse ?
Collection of diverse data
subject oriented
aimed at executive, decision
maker
often a copy of operational data
with value-added data (e.g.,
summaries, history)
integrated
time-varying
non-volatile
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4. Data Warehouse – Subject
Oriented
Organized around major
subjects, such as customer,
product, sales.
Focusing on the modeling and
analysis of data for decision
makers, not on daily
operations or transaction
processing
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5. Data Warehouse-Integrated
Constructed by integrating multiple,
heterogeneous data sources
relational databases, flat files, on-line
transaction records
Data cleaning and data integration
techniques are applied.
Ensure consistency in naming conventions,
encoding structures, attribute measures,
etc. among different data sources
E.g., Hotel price: currency, tax, breakfast covered,
etc.
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6. Data Warehouse – Non-
Volatile
A physically separate store of data
transformed from the operational
environment.
Operational update of data does not
occur in the data warehouse
environment.
◦ Requires only two operations in data
accessing:
initial loading of data and access of
data.
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7. Data Warehouse - Time
Variant
The time horizon for the data warehouse is
significantly longer than that of operational
systems.
◦ Operational database: current value data.
◦ Data warehouse data: provide information
from a historical perspective (e.g., past 5-10
years)
Every key structure in the data warehouse
◦ Contains an element of time, explicitly or
implicitly
◦ But the key of operational data may or may
not contain “time element”.
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8. Advantages of Data
Warehouse
High query performance
Queries not visible outside warehouse
Local processing at sources unaffected
Can operate when sources unavailable
Can query data not stored in a DBMS
Extra information at warehouse
◦ Modify, summarize (store aggregates)
◦ Add historical information
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