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In general all the data collected by an OLTP system is of direct use to the
application. The people creating this data, understands and know how to use it to solve
their immediate day-to-day problem
But what happen if somebody outside the OLTP group wants this data?
How do they know what data is available? How do they access? What about security?
Still there are some more questions to see. Outsiders are the people those who need data
for analysis that can help them make better decision. Business people making strategic
decisions – pricing, market analysis that depends on availability of timely and accurate
data. If they can’t get to our data and we can’t get to theirs, then everybody loses.
Is Database that organizes and stores copies of data from multiple data
sources? We can assume a decision support server that transform, aggregates and add
values to data from various sources. It also stores metadata, System level and semantic
level metadata.
Is provided via SQL most vendors support ODBC and some other
protocol. In summary DBA must be able to assemble data from different sources,
replicate it, clean it , store it, catalog it and the make it available to DSS tools. Data
mining is one of them that refer loosely to finding relevant information from a large
volume of data. Data mining attempts to discover pre defined/user defined rules & pattern
automatically from data.
Query
Data source 1 and
Data analysis
loaders tools
Data source 2
DBMS
Data source 3
The data transmit information either daily or periodically etc for new data
to sources.
Data sources may likely have different schemas. The task of a warehouse
is to perform schema integration and to convert data to the integrated schema.
c) How to propagate updates
Last words -though the topic is very vast and it is quite impossible to
summarize in one short topic. If you have some comments about this topic please write in
thread/Paper so the debate may be continue.