Bill Inmon, who provided the following: A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-

variant and non-volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process.

In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW),
is a system used for reporting and data analysis, and is considered a core component of business
intelligence. DWs are central repositories of integrated data from one or more disparate sources.

Data warehousing can be defined as particular area of comfort wherein subject oriented, non-volatile
collection of data is done as to support the management's process. It senses the limited data within
the multiple data resources. It has built-in data resources that are modulated upon the data
transaction.

There are three prominent data warehouse characteristics:

1. Integrated: The way data is extracted and transformed is uniform, regardless of the
original source.
2. Time-variant: Data is organized via time-periods (weekly, monthly, annually, etc.).
3. Non-volatile: A data warehouse is not updated in real-time.

What is difference between OLAP and OLTP?

In OLTP database there is detailed and current data, and schema used to store transactional
databases is the entity model (usually 3NF). - OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) is characterized by
relatively low volume of transactions. Queries are often very complex and involve aggregations.

What is a three layer architecture in data warehouse?

 Bottom Tier - The bottom tier of the architecture is the data warehouse database
server. It is the relational database system. ...
 Middle Tier - In the middle tier, we have the OLAP Server that can be implemented
in either of the following ways. ...
 Top-Tier - This tier is the front-end client layer.

Three main types of Data Warehouses are:

 Enterprise Data Warehouse: Enterprise Data Warehouse is a centralized warehouse. ...

 Operational Data Store: ...
 Data Mart: ...
 Offline Operational Database: ...
 Offline Data Warehouse: ...
 Real time Data Warehouse: ...
 Integrated Data Warehouse: ...
 Four components of Data Warehouses are:

Components of a Data Warehouse

 Overall Architecture. ...

 Data Warehouse Database. ...
 Sourcing, Acquisition, Clean-up and Transformation Tools. ...
 Meta data. ...
 Access Tools. ...
 Data Marts. ...
 Data Warehouse Administration and Management. ...
  Information Delivery System.

Questionnaire ::

Overview Current system

Existing Data Base

Source System?

Sizes?

Which Mode? (How often, Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

ETL Process? And Schedule (Code/Tool)

Manual Schedule or Automated Schedule

Data Transformation

Total Data Marts?

Bottom Tier Technology?

Middle Tier Technology?

Top Tier (Visualization)? Current tools if any, Proposed tools if any?

OLAP and OLTP? Transactions as is or Analyse and summary data or alter landing
summarise?

In the Entire system do we any applications that uses offline DB?