Talk:Data warehouse
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- Conventional database systems use highly normalized data formats so that they will execute transactions and queries as fast as possible, in minimal time and space.
Normalization gives you tremendous flexibility on the kinds of queries you may run, but often at the expense of time. (unsigned)
tzeh 5.jan.2004 wrote
This entry of "data warhouse" is not the definition resp. description of a data warehouse. This text defines resp. describes the data warehouse system with some components of the data warehouse system. A data warehouse is a data store only which is build out of separate internal and/or external data sources where the data is integrated in a consistent manner. (unsigned)
Shark Tank on Computer World
State agency's data warehouse project is renamed: It's now officially an "administrative systems reporting database." Why not just call it a data warehouse? "Several legislators threatened to block the project if the warehouse wasn't constructed within their own districts," grumbles on-scene pilot fish. "All attempts to explain that no physical structures would ever be built fell short. The lawmakers had never heard of a warehouse without a building somewhere." [1] (http://www.computerworld.com/departments/opinions/sharktank/0,4885,100643,00.html) 4.250.198.106 14:18, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)