Integrated

Integration is closely related to subject orientation. Data warehouses must put

data from disparate sources into a consistent format. They must resolve such
problems as naming conflicts and inconsistencies among units of measure. When they
achieve this, they are said to be integrated.
Nonvolatile
Nonvolatile means that, once entered into the warehouse, data should not change.
This is logical because the purpose of a warehouse is to enable you to analyze what
has occurred.
Time Variant
In order to discover trends in business, analysts need large amounts of data. This
is very much in contrast to online transaction processing (OLTP) systems, where
performance requirements demand that historical data be moved to an archive. A data
warehouse's focus on change over time is what is meant by the term time variant.
How many stages in Datawarehousing?
Data warehouse generally includes two stages
� ETL
� Report Generation
ETL
Short for extract, transform, load, three database functions that are combined into
one tool
Extract -- the process of reading data from a source database.
Transform -- the process of converting the extracted data from its previous form
into required form
Load -- the process of writing the data into the target database.

ETL is used to migrate data from one database to another, to form data marts and
data warehouses and also to convert databases from one format to another format.
It is used to retrieve the data from various operational databases and is
transformed into useful information and finally loaded into Datawarehousing system.
1 INFORMATICA
2 ABINITO
3 DATASTAGE
4. BODI
5 ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDERS
Report generation
Report generation
In report generation, OLAP is used (i.e.) online analytical processing.
It is a set of specification which allows the client applications in retrieving the
data for analytical processing.
It is a specialized tool that sits between a database and user in order to provide
various analyses of the data stored in the database.
OLAP Tool is a reporting tool which generates the reports that are useful for
Decision support for top level management.

Business Objects
Cognos
Micro strategy
Hyperion
Oracle Express
6. Microsoft Analysis Services

Different Between OLTP and OLAP

OLTP
OLAP
1
Application Oriented (e.g., purchase order it is functionality of an application)
Subject Oriented (subject in the sense customer, product, item, time)
2
Used to run business
Used to analyze business
3
Detailed data
Summarized data
4
Repetitive access
Ad-hoc access
5
Few Records accessed at a time (tens), simple query
Large volumes accessed at a time(millions), complex query
6
Small database
Large Database
7
Current data
Historical data
8
Clerical User
Knowledge User
9
Row by Row Loading