The document provides an overview of the key components and considerations for building a data warehouse. It discusses 7 main components: 1) the data warehouse database, 2) sourcing, acquisition, cleanup and transformation tools, 3) metadata, 4) access (query) tools, 5) data marts, 6) data warehouse administration and management, and 7) information delivery systems. It also outlines important design considerations, technical considerations, and implementation considerations that must be addressed when building a data warehouse environment.
Shivani Soni presented on data mining. Data mining involves using computational methods to discover patterns in large datasets, combining techniques from machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and database systems. It is used to extract useful information from data and transform it into an understandable structure. Data mining has various applications, including in sales/marketing, banking/finance, healthcare/insurance, transportation, medicine, education, manufacturing, and research analysis. It enables businesses to understand customer purchasing patterns and maximize profits. Examples of its use include fraud detection, credit risk analysis, stock trading, customer loyalty analysis, distribution scheduling, claims analysis, risk profiling, detecting medical therapy patterns, education decision making, and aiding manufacturing process design and research.
This document provides an overview of data warehousing. It defines data warehousing as collecting data from multiple sources into a central repository for analysis and decision making. The document outlines the history of data warehousing and describes its key characteristics like being subject-oriented, integrated, and time-variant. It also discusses the architecture of a data warehouse including sources, transformation, storage, and reporting layers. The document compares data warehousing to traditional DBMS and explains how data warehouses are better suited for analysis versus transaction processing.
This document discusses various machine learning techniques for classification and prediction. It covers decision tree induction, tree pruning, Bayesian classification, Bayesian belief networks, backpropagation, association rule mining, and ensemble methods like bagging and boosting. Classification involves predicting categorical labels while prediction predicts continuous values. Key steps for preparing data include cleaning, transformation, and comparing different methods based on accuracy, speed, robustness, scalability, and interpretability.
This document provides an overview of data mining, data warehousing, and decision support systems. It defines data mining as extracting hidden predictive patterns from large databases and data warehousing as integrating data from multiple sources into a central repository for reporting and analysis. Common data warehousing techniques include data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP), and online transaction processing (OLTP). The document also discusses the benefits of data warehousing such as enhanced business intelligence and historical data analysis, as well challenges around meeting user expectations and optimizing systems. Finally, it describes decision support systems and executive information systems as tools that combine data and models to support business decision making.
This document provides an overview of data warehousing and related concepts. It defines a data warehouse as a centralized database for analysis and reporting that stores current and historical data from multiple sources. The document describes key elements of data warehousing including Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes, multidimensional data models, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data marts. It also outlines advantages such as enhanced access and consistency, and disadvantages like time required for data extraction and loading.
The document is a chapter from a textbook on data mining written by Akannsha A. Totewar, a professor at YCCE in Nagpur, India. It provides an introduction to data mining, including definitions of data mining, the motivation and evolution of the field, common data mining tasks, and major issues in data mining such as methodology, performance, and privacy.
This document discusses data mining and different types of data mining techniques. It defines data mining as the process of analyzing large amounts of data to discover patterns and relationships. The document describes predictive data mining, which makes predictions based on historical data, and descriptive data mining, which identifies patterns and relationships. It also discusses classification, clustering, time-series analysis, and data summarization as specific data mining techniques.
Shivani Soni presented on data mining. Data mining involves using computational methods to discover patterns in large datasets, combining techniques from machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and database systems. It is used to extract useful information from data and transform it into an understandable structure. Data mining has various applications, including in sales/marketing, banking/finance, healthcare/insurance, transportation, medicine, education, manufacturing, and research analysis. It enables businesses to understand customer purchasing patterns and maximize profits. Examples of its use include fraud detection, credit risk analysis, stock trading, customer loyalty analysis, distribution scheduling, claims analysis, risk profiling, detecting medical therapy patterns, education decision making, and aiding manufacturing process design and research.
This document provides an overview of data warehousing. It defines data warehousing as collecting data from multiple sources into a central repository for analysis and decision making. The document outlines the history of data warehousing and describes its key characteristics like being subject-oriented, integrated, and time-variant. It also discusses the architecture of a data warehouse including sources, transformation, storage, and reporting layers. The document compares data warehousing to traditional DBMS and explains how data warehouses are better suited for analysis versus transaction processing.
This document discusses various machine learning techniques for classification and prediction. It covers decision tree induction, tree pruning, Bayesian classification, Bayesian belief networks, backpropagation, association rule mining, and ensemble methods like bagging and boosting. Classification involves predicting categorical labels while prediction predicts continuous values. Key steps for preparing data include cleaning, transformation, and comparing different methods based on accuracy, speed, robustness, scalability, and interpretability.
This document provides an overview of data mining, data warehousing, and decision support systems. It defines data mining as extracting hidden predictive patterns from large databases and data warehousing as integrating data from multiple sources into a central repository for reporting and analysis. Common data warehousing techniques include data marts, online analytical processing (OLAP), and online transaction processing (OLTP). The document also discusses the benefits of data warehousing such as enhanced business intelligence and historical data analysis, as well challenges around meeting user expectations and optimizing systems. Finally, it describes decision support systems and executive information systems as tools that combine data and models to support business decision making.
This document provides an overview of data warehousing and related concepts. It defines a data warehouse as a centralized database for analysis and reporting that stores current and historical data from multiple sources. The document describes key elements of data warehousing including Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes, multidimensional data models, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data marts. It also outlines advantages such as enhanced access and consistency, and disadvantages like time required for data extraction and loading.
The document is a chapter from a textbook on data mining written by Akannsha A. Totewar, a professor at YCCE in Nagpur, India. It provides an introduction to data mining, including definitions of data mining, the motivation and evolution of the field, common data mining tasks, and major issues in data mining such as methodology, performance, and privacy.
This document discusses data mining and different types of data mining techniques. It defines data mining as the process of analyzing large amounts of data to discover patterns and relationships. The document describes predictive data mining, which makes predictions based on historical data, and descriptive data mining, which identifies patterns and relationships. It also discusses classification, clustering, time-series analysis, and data summarization as specific data mining techniques.
The document discusses data warehouses and their advantages. It describes the different views of a data warehouse including the top-down view, data source view, data warehouse view, and business query view. It also discusses approaches to building a data warehouse, including top-down and bottom-up, and steps involved including planning, requirements, design, integration, and deployment. Finally, it discusses technologies used to populate and refresh data warehouses like extraction, cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh tools.
A data warehouse is a central repository for storing historical and integrated data from multiple sources to be used for analysis and reporting. It contains a single version of the truth and is optimized for read access. In contrast, operational databases are optimized for transaction processing and contain current detailed data. A key aspect of data warehousing is using a dimensional model with fact and dimension tables. This allows for analyzing relationships between measures and dimensions in a multi-dimensional structure known as a data cube.
The document provides information about what a data warehouse is and why it is important. A data warehouse is a relational database designed for querying and analysis that contains historical data from transaction systems and other sources. It allows organizations to access, analyze, and report on integrated information to support business processes and decisions.
Data Mining: What is Data Mining?
History
How data mining works?
Data Mining Techniques.
Data Mining Process.
(The Cross-Industry Standard Process)
Data Mining: Applications.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Data Mining.
Conclusion.
Data Mining and Business Intelligence ToolsMotaz Saad
This document provides an outline for a presentation on data mining and business intelligence. It discusses why data mining is important due to the explosive growth of data from various sources like business transactions, scientific research, and social media. It also gives an overview of some popular open source and non-open source data mining tools, including WEKA, Rapid Miner, SPSS, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Oracle Data Miner.
Data Mining, KDD Process, Data mining functionalities, Characterization,
Discrimination ,
Association,
Classification,
Prediction,
Clustering,
Outlier analysis, Data Cleaning as a Process
This document discusses data warehousing, including its definition, importance, components, strategies, ETL processes, and considerations for success and pitfalls. A data warehouse is a collection of integrated, subject-oriented, non-volatile data used for analysis. It allows more effective decision making through consolidated historical data from multiple sources. Key components include summarized and current detailed data, as well as transformation programs. Common strategies are enterprise-wide and data mart approaches. ETL processes extract, transform and load the data. Clean data and proper implementation, training and maintenance are important for success.
Data warehousing combines data from multiple sources into a single database to provide businesses with analytics results from data mining, OLAP, scorecarding and reporting. It extracts, transforms and loads data from operational data stores and data marts into a data warehouse and staging area to integrate and store large amounts of corporate data. Data mining analyzes large databases to extract previously unknown and potentially useful patterns and relationships to improve business processes.
Data mining , Knowledge Discovery Process, ClassificationDr. Abdul Ahad Abro
The document provides an overview of data mining techniques and processes. It discusses data mining as the process of extracting knowledge from large amounts of data. It describes common data mining tasks like classification, regression, clustering, and association rule learning. It also outlines popular data mining processes like CRISP-DM and SEMMA that involve steps of business understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment. Decision trees are presented as a popular classification technique that uses a tree structure to split data into nodes and leaves to classify examples.
A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, consolidated collection of integrated data from multiple sources used to support management decision making. It is separate from operational databases and contains historical data for analysis. Data warehouses use a star schema with fact and dimension tables and support online analytical processing (OLAP) for complex analysis and reporting.
Data analytics refers to the broad field of using data and tools to make business decisions, while data analysis is a subset that refers to specific actions within the analytics process. Data analysis involves collecting, manipulating, and examining past data to gain insights, while data analytics takes the analyzed data and works with it in a meaningful way to inform business decisions and identify new opportunities. Both are important, with data analysis providing understanding of what happened in the past and data analytics enabling predictions about what will happen in the future.
Data mining is an important part of business intelligence and refers to discovering interesting patterns from large amounts of data. It involves applying techniques from multiple disciplines like statistics, machine learning, and information science to large datasets. While organizations collect vast amounts of data, data mining is needed to extract useful knowledge and insights from it. Some common techniques of data mining include classification, clustering, association analysis, and outlier detection. Data mining tools can help organizations apply these techniques to gain intelligence from their data warehouses.
History, definition, need, attributes, applications of data warehousing ; difference between data mining, big data, database and data warehouse ; future scope
The document discusses business analytics and decision making. It defines key concepts like data warehousing, data mining, business intelligence, descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. It explains how these concepts are used to extract insights from data to support decision making in organizations. Examples of how different types of analytics can be applied in a retail context are provided.
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP (online analytical processing) technology. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It describes how data warehouses use a multi-dimensional data model with facts and dimensions to organize historical data from multiple sources for analysis. Common data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas are also summarized.
A distributed database is a collection of logically interrelated databases distributed over a computer network. A distributed database management system (DDBMS) manages the distributed database and makes the distribution transparent to users. There are two main types of DDBMS - homogeneous and heterogeneous. Key characteristics of distributed databases include replication of fragments, shared logically related data across sites, and each site being controlled by a DBMS. Challenges include complex management, security, and increased storage requirements due to data replication.
The document discusses transaction states, ACID properties, and concurrency control in databases. It describes the different states a transaction can be in, including active, partially committed, committed, failed, and terminated. It then explains the four ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. Finally, it discusses the need for concurrency control and some problems that can occur without it, such as lost updates, dirty reads, incorrect summaries, and unrepeatable reads.
This document defines a data warehouse as a collection of corporate information derived from operational systems and external sources to support business decisions rather than operations. It discusses the purpose of data warehousing to realize the value of data and make better decisions. Key components like staging areas, data marts, and operational data stores are described. The document also outlines evolution of data warehouse architectures and best practices for implementation.
This document provides information about a course on data warehousing and data mining, including:
1. It outlines the course syllabus which covers the basics of data warehousing, data preprocessing, association rules, classification and clustering, and recent trends in data mining.
2. It describes the 5 units that make up the course, including an overview of the topics covered in each unit such as data warehouse architecture, data integration, decision trees, and applications of data mining.
3. It lists two textbooks and four references that will be used for the course.
The key components of a data warehouse are the source data component, data staging component, data storage component, information delivery component, meta-data component, and management and control component. The source data component includes production data, internal data, archived data, and external data. The data staging component involves extracting, transforming through processes like handling synonyms and homonyms, and loading the data. The information delivery component provides access and reports to different user types from novice to senior executives.
The document provides an overview of data warehousing and decision support systems. It discusses how data warehouses evolved from databases used for transaction processing to integrated databases designed for analysis and decision making. Key points include:
- Data warehouses store historical data from multiple sources to support analysis and decision making.
- They address limitations of transactional databases that are optimized for real-time queries rather than complex analysis.
- Effective data warehousing requires resolving data conflicts, documenting assumptions, and learning from mistakes in the implementation process.
The document discusses data warehouses and their advantages. It describes the different views of a data warehouse including the top-down view, data source view, data warehouse view, and business query view. It also discusses approaches to building a data warehouse, including top-down and bottom-up, and steps involved including planning, requirements, design, integration, and deployment. Finally, it discusses technologies used to populate and refresh data warehouses like extraction, cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh tools.
A data warehouse is a central repository for storing historical and integrated data from multiple sources to be used for analysis and reporting. It contains a single version of the truth and is optimized for read access. In contrast, operational databases are optimized for transaction processing and contain current detailed data. A key aspect of data warehousing is using a dimensional model with fact and dimension tables. This allows for analyzing relationships between measures and dimensions in a multi-dimensional structure known as a data cube.
The document provides information about what a data warehouse is and why it is important. A data warehouse is a relational database designed for querying and analysis that contains historical data from transaction systems and other sources. It allows organizations to access, analyze, and report on integrated information to support business processes and decisions.
Data Mining: What is Data Mining?
History
How data mining works?
Data Mining Techniques.
Data Mining Process.
(The Cross-Industry Standard Process)
Data Mining: Applications.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Data Mining.
Conclusion.
Data Mining and Business Intelligence ToolsMotaz Saad
This document provides an outline for a presentation on data mining and business intelligence. It discusses why data mining is important due to the explosive growth of data from various sources like business transactions, scientific research, and social media. It also gives an overview of some popular open source and non-open source data mining tools, including WEKA, Rapid Miner, SPSS, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Oracle Data Miner.
Data Mining, KDD Process, Data mining functionalities, Characterization,
Discrimination ,
Association,
Classification,
Prediction,
Clustering,
Outlier analysis, Data Cleaning as a Process
This document discusses data warehousing, including its definition, importance, components, strategies, ETL processes, and considerations for success and pitfalls. A data warehouse is a collection of integrated, subject-oriented, non-volatile data used for analysis. It allows more effective decision making through consolidated historical data from multiple sources. Key components include summarized and current detailed data, as well as transformation programs. Common strategies are enterprise-wide and data mart approaches. ETL processes extract, transform and load the data. Clean data and proper implementation, training and maintenance are important for success.
Data warehousing combines data from multiple sources into a single database to provide businesses with analytics results from data mining, OLAP, scorecarding and reporting. It extracts, transforms and loads data from operational data stores and data marts into a data warehouse and staging area to integrate and store large amounts of corporate data. Data mining analyzes large databases to extract previously unknown and potentially useful patterns and relationships to improve business processes.
Data mining , Knowledge Discovery Process, ClassificationDr. Abdul Ahad Abro
The document provides an overview of data mining techniques and processes. It discusses data mining as the process of extracting knowledge from large amounts of data. It describes common data mining tasks like classification, regression, clustering, and association rule learning. It also outlines popular data mining processes like CRISP-DM and SEMMA that involve steps of business understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluation and deployment. Decision trees are presented as a popular classification technique that uses a tree structure to split data into nodes and leaves to classify examples.
A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, consolidated collection of integrated data from multiple sources used to support management decision making. It is separate from operational databases and contains historical data for analysis. Data warehouses use a star schema with fact and dimension tables and support online analytical processing (OLAP) for complex analysis and reporting.
Data analytics refers to the broad field of using data and tools to make business decisions, while data analysis is a subset that refers to specific actions within the analytics process. Data analysis involves collecting, manipulating, and examining past data to gain insights, while data analytics takes the analyzed data and works with it in a meaningful way to inform business decisions and identify new opportunities. Both are important, with data analysis providing understanding of what happened in the past and data analytics enabling predictions about what will happen in the future.
Data mining is an important part of business intelligence and refers to discovering interesting patterns from large amounts of data. It involves applying techniques from multiple disciplines like statistics, machine learning, and information science to large datasets. While organizations collect vast amounts of data, data mining is needed to extract useful knowledge and insights from it. Some common techniques of data mining include classification, clustering, association analysis, and outlier detection. Data mining tools can help organizations apply these techniques to gain intelligence from their data warehouses.
History, definition, need, attributes, applications of data warehousing ; difference between data mining, big data, database and data warehouse ; future scope
The document discusses business analytics and decision making. It defines key concepts like data warehousing, data mining, business intelligence, descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. It explains how these concepts are used to extract insights from data to support decision making in organizations. Examples of how different types of analytics can be applied in a retail context are provided.
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP (online analytical processing) technology. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It describes how data warehouses use a multi-dimensional data model with facts and dimensions to organize historical data from multiple sources for analysis. Common data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas are also summarized.
A distributed database is a collection of logically interrelated databases distributed over a computer network. A distributed database management system (DDBMS) manages the distributed database and makes the distribution transparent to users. There are two main types of DDBMS - homogeneous and heterogeneous. Key characteristics of distributed databases include replication of fragments, shared logically related data across sites, and each site being controlled by a DBMS. Challenges include complex management, security, and increased storage requirements due to data replication.
The document discusses transaction states, ACID properties, and concurrency control in databases. It describes the different states a transaction can be in, including active, partially committed, committed, failed, and terminated. It then explains the four ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. Finally, it discusses the need for concurrency control and some problems that can occur without it, such as lost updates, dirty reads, incorrect summaries, and unrepeatable reads.
This document defines a data warehouse as a collection of corporate information derived from operational systems and external sources to support business decisions rather than operations. It discusses the purpose of data warehousing to realize the value of data and make better decisions. Key components like staging areas, data marts, and operational data stores are described. The document also outlines evolution of data warehouse architectures and best practices for implementation.
This document provides information about a course on data warehousing and data mining, including:
1. It outlines the course syllabus which covers the basics of data warehousing, data preprocessing, association rules, classification and clustering, and recent trends in data mining.
2. It describes the 5 units that make up the course, including an overview of the topics covered in each unit such as data warehouse architecture, data integration, decision trees, and applications of data mining.
3. It lists two textbooks and four references that will be used for the course.
The key components of a data warehouse are the source data component, data staging component, data storage component, information delivery component, meta-data component, and management and control component. The source data component includes production data, internal data, archived data, and external data. The data staging component involves extracting, transforming through processes like handling synonyms and homonyms, and loading the data. The information delivery component provides access and reports to different user types from novice to senior executives.
The document provides an overview of data warehousing and decision support systems. It discusses how data warehouses evolved from databases used for transaction processing to integrated databases designed for analysis and decision making. Key points include:
- Data warehouses store historical data from multiple sources to support analysis and decision making.
- They address limitations of transactional databases that are optimized for real-time queries rather than complex analysis.
- Effective data warehousing requires resolving data conflicts, documenting assumptions, and learning from mistakes in the implementation process.
The document outlines the syllabus for a course on data mining and data warehousing from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal. It covers 7 units that discuss topics like introduction to data mining, data warehousing concepts, data mining techniques like decision trees and neural networks, mining association rules using various algorithms, clustering techniques, classification techniques, and applications of data mining. It also provides details on some core concepts like the stages of the knowledge discovery process, data mining functionalities, and classification of data mining systems.
The document discusses the need for data warehousing and provides examples of how data warehousing can help companies analyze data from multiple sources to help with decision making. It describes common data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas. It also outlines the process of building a data warehouse, including data selection, preprocessing, transformation, integration and loading. Finally, it discusses some advantages and disadvantages of data warehousing.
The document discusses data warehousing, including its purpose of realizing value from data to support better business decisions. A data warehouse contains integrated data from multiple sources to support analysis. It discusses the components of a data warehouse like staging areas, data marts, and operational data stores. The document also covers topics like the evolution of data warehouse architectures, complexities in creating a data warehouse, potential pitfalls, and best practices.
How healthy is your data?
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Query Wizards - data testing made easy - no programmingRTTS
Fast and easy. No Programming needed. The latest QuerySurge release introduces the new Query Wizards. The Wizards allow both novice and experienced team members to validate their organization's data quickly with no SQL programming required.
The Wizards provide an immediate ROI through their ease-of-use and ensure that minimal time and effort are required for developing tests and obtaining results. Even novice testers are productive as soon as they start using the Wizards!
According to a recent survey of Data Architects and other data experts on LinkedIn, approximately 80% of columns in a data warehouse have no transformations, meaning the Wizards can test all of these columns quickly & easily, (The columns with transformations can be tested using the QuerySurge Design library using custom SQL coding.)
There are 3 Types of automated Data Comparisons:
- Column-Level Comparison
- Table-Level Comparison
- Row Count Comparison
There are also automated features for filtering (‘Where’ clause) and sorting (‘Order By’ clause).
The Wizards provide both novices and non-technical team members with a fast & easy way to be productive immediately and speed up testing for team members skilled in SQL.
Trial our software either as a download or in the cloud at www.QuerySurge.com. The trial comes with a built-in tutorial and sample data.
introduction to data warehousing and miningRajesh Chandra
1) The document discusses the evolution of database technology from the 1960s to present, including primitive file processing, DBMS, relational DBMS, advanced data models, and data warehousing and mining.
2) It explains why organizations mine data from a commercial viewpoint, to gain competitive advantages through better customized services, and from a scientific viewpoint to make use of large amounts of data being collected.
3) Data mining is defined as the process of analyzing data from different perspectives to extract useful patterns and knowledge, and examples are given of what is and is not considered data mining.
Data extraction, cleanup & transformation tools 29.1.16Dhilsath Fathima
Data preprocessing is an important step in the data mining process that involves transforming raw data into an understandable format. It includes tasks like data cleaning, integration, transformation, and reduction. Data cleaning identifies outliers, handles missing data and resolves inconsistencies. Data integration combines data from multiple sources. Transformation includes normalization and aggregation. Reduction techniques like binning, clustering, and sampling reduce data volume while maintaining analytical quality. Dimensionality reduction selects a minimum set of important features.
A data warehouse is a large collection of integrated data from multiple sources that is structured for analysis and reporting. It allows users to gain insights from historical data to support business decisions and identify trends. Data is extracted from operational systems, transformed for consistency and quality, and loaded into the data warehouse where it is stored in a multidimensional structure to enable analysis. This involves fact and dimension tables along with techniques like denormalization to optimize query performance.
The document provides an introduction to data warehousing. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-varying, and non-volatile collection of data used for organizational decision making. It describes key characteristics of a data warehouse such as maintaining historical data, facilitating analysis to improve understanding, and enabling better decision making. It also discusses dimensions, facts, ETL processes, and common data warehouse architectures like star schemas.
This document provides an introduction to data warehousing. It defines key concepts like data, databases, information and metadata. It describes problems with heterogeneous data sources and fragmented data management in large enterprises. The solution is a data warehouse, which provides a unified view of data from various sources. A data warehouse is defined as a subject-oriented, integrated collection of historical data used for analysis and decision making. It differs from operational databases in aspects like data volume, volatility, and usage. The document outlines the extract-transform-load process and common architecture of data warehousing.
QuerySurge - the automated Data Testing solutionRTTS
The document discusses QuerySurge, an automated data testing solution that helps verify data quality and find errors. It notes that traditional data quality tools focus on profiling, cleansing and monitoring data, while QuerySurge also enables data testing through easy-to-use query wizards and comparison of source and target data without SQL coding. QuerySurge allows collaborative testing across teams and platforms, integrates with development tools, and can significantly reduce testing time and improve data quality.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in data warehousing including:
1. The need for data warehousing to consolidate data from multiple sources and support decision making.
2. Common data warehouse architectures like the two-tier architecture and data marts.
3. The extract, transform, load (ETL) process used to reconcile data and populate the data warehouse.
Leveraging HPE ALM & QuerySurge to test HPE VerticaRTTS
Are you using HPE ALM or Quality Center (QC) for your requirements gathering and test management?
RTTS, an alliance partner of HPE and a member of HPE’s Big Data community, can show you how to use ALM/QC and RTTS’ QuerySurge to effectively manage your data validation & testing of Vertica (or any data warehouse).
In this webinar video you will see:
- a custom view of ALM to store source-to-target mappings
- data validation tests in QuerySurge
- the execution of QuerySurge tests from ALM
- the results of data validation tests stored in ALM
- custom ALM reports that show data validation coverage of Vertica
how we improve your data quality while reducing your costs & risks
Presented by:
Bill Hayduk, Founder & CEO of RTTS, the developers of QuerySurge
Chris Thompson, Senior Domain Expert, Big Data testing
To learn more about QuerySurge, visit www.QuerySurge.com
There are three common data warehouse architectures: basic, with a staging area, and with a staging area and data marts. The basic architecture extracts data directly from source systems into the data warehouse for users. The staging area architecture uses a staging area to clean and process data before loading it into the warehouse. The third architecture adds data marts, which are subsets of the warehouse organized for specific business units like sales or purchasing.
Data Warehousing in Pharma: How to Find Bad Data while Meeting Regulatory Req...RTTS
In the U.S., pharmaceutical firms must meet electronic record-keeping regulations set by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The regulation is Title 21 CFR Part 11, commonly known as Part 11.
Part 11 requires regulated firms to implement controls for software and systems involved in processing many forms of data as part of business operations and product development.
Enterprise data warehouses are used by the pharmaceutical and medical device industries for storing data covered by Part 11. QuerySurge, the only test tool designed specifically for automating the testing of data warehouses and the ETL process, is the market leader in testing data warehouses used by Part 11-governed companies.
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Big Data Testing : Automate theTesting of Hadoop, NoSQL & DWH without Writing...RTTS
Testing of Hadoop, NoSQL and Data Warehouses Visually
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This webinar is geared towards:
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- ETL Testers, Big Data Testers
- Data Analysts
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You will learn how to:
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Difference between star schema and snowflake schemaUmar Ali
The key differences between a star schema and snowflake schema are:
A star schema has a single, centralized fact table connected to multiple dimension tables, while a snowflake schema normalizes dimensions into multiple tables linked through foreign keys. This reduces data redundancy in a snowflake schema but requires more complex joins. Queries are typically faster with a star schema due to its simpler structure and fewer joins compared to the snowflake schema.
Big Data Testing: Ensuring MongoDB Data QualityRTTS
You've made the move to MongoDB for its flexible schema and querying capabilities in order to enhance agility and reduce costs for your business. Shouldn't your data quality process be just as organized and efficient?
Using QuerySurge for testing your MongoDB data as part of your quality effort will increase your testing speed, boost your testing coverage (up to 100%), and improve the level of quality within your Big Data store. QuerySurge will help you keep your team organized and on track too!
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This document outlines the objectives and units of study for a course on data warehousing and mining. The 5 units cover: 1) data warehousing components and architecture; 2) business analysis tools; 3) data mining tasks and techniques; 4) association rule mining and classification; and 5) clustering applications and trends in data mining. Key topics include extracting, transforming, and loading data into a data warehouse; using metadata and query/reporting tools; building dependent data marts; and applying data mining techniques like classification, clustering, and association rule mining. The course aims to introduce these concepts and their real-world implications.
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Data Warehousing & Mining
UNIT – II
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Syllabus of Unit - II
DATA Warehousing
Data Warehousing Components
Building a Data Warehouse
Warehouse Database
Mapping the Data Warehouse to a Multiprocessor
Architecture
DBMS Schemas for Decision Support
Data Extraction, Cleanup & Transformation Tools
Metadata.
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Data Warehouse
• The Data warehouse is an environment, not a product.
• It is an architectural construct of an information system that
provides users with current and historical decision support
information that is hard to access or present in traditional
operational data store.
• Data warehousing is a blend of technologies and components
aimed at effective integration of operation database into an
environment that enables strategic use of data.
• These technologies include relational and multi-dimensional
database management system, client/ server architecture, meta-
data modeling and repositories, graphical user interface etc.
5. Data Warehousing Components
The data warehouse architecture is based on a relational
database management system server that functions as
the central repository for informational data. Operational
data and processing is completely separated from data
warehouse processing. This central information
repository is surrounded by a number of key
components designed to make the entire environment
functional, manageable and accessible by both the
operational systems that source data into the warehouse
and by end-user query and analysis tools.
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6. Components of Data Warehouse continued…
There are following seven components of a Data
Warehouse:
– Data Warehouse Database
– Sourcing, Acquisition, Cleanup and Transformation Tools
– Meta Data
– Access (Query) Tools
The query tool allows executives and other users real-time access to the
Data Warehouse database for query generation, result displays, reports and
data exports
– Data Marts
– Data Warehouse Administration and Management
– Information Delivery System
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8. 1. Data Warehouse Database
The central data warehouse database is the cornerstone of the data warehousing
environment. Certain data warehouse attributes, such as very large database
size, ad hoc query processing and the need for flexible user view creation
including aggregates, multi-table joins and drill-downs, have become drivers for
different technological approaches to the data warehouse database. These
approaches include:
– Parallel relational database designs for scalability that include shared-memory,
shared disk, or shared-nothing models implemented on various multiprocessor
configurations (symmetric multiprocessors or SMP, massively parallel processors or
MPP, and/or clusters of uni- or multiprocessors).
– An innovative approach to speed up a traditional RDBMS by using new index
structures to bypass relational table scans.
– Multidimensional databases (MDDBs) that are based on proprietary database
technology. Multi-dimensional databases are designed to overcome any limitations
placed on the warehouse by the nature of the relational data model. MDDBs enable
on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tools that architecturally belong to a group of
data warehousing components jointly categorized as the data query, reporting,
analysis and mining tools.
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9. 2. Sourcing, Acquisition, Cleanup and
Transformation Tools
The data sourcing, cleanup, transformation and migration tools
perform all of the conversions, summarizations, key changes,
structural changes and condensations needed to transform disparate
data into information that can be used by the decision support tool.
They produce the programs and control statements, including the
COBOL programs, MVS job-control language (JCL), UNIX
scripts, and SQL data definition language (DDL) needed to move
data into the data warehouse for multiple operational systems.
These tools also maintain the meta data. The functionality includes:
– Removing unwanted data from operational databases
– Converting to common data names and definitions
– Establishing defaults for missing data
– Accommodating source data definition changes
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ETL Tools
ETL tools are the equivalent of schema mappings in virtual
integration, but are more powerful
Some of the Well Known ETL Tools
The most well known commercial tools are Ab Initio, IBM InfoSphere
DataStage, Informatica, Oracle Data Integrator and SAP Data Integrator.
There are several open source ETL tools, among others:
Apatar, CloverETL, Pentaho and Talend.
Arbitrary pieces of code to take data from a source, convert it into
data for the warehouse:
– Import filters – read and convert from data sources
– Data Transformations – join, aggregate, filter, convert data
– De-duplication – finds multiple records referring to the same entity,
merges them
– Profiling – builds tables, histograms, etc. to summarize data
– Quality management – test against master values, known business rules,
constraints, etc.
11. 3. Meta Data
Meta data is data about data that describes the data
warehouse. It is used for building, maintaining,
managing and using the data warehouse. Meta data
can be classified into:
– Technical meta data, which contains information about
warehouse data for use by warehouse designers and
administrators when carrying out warehouse development
and management tasks.
– Business meta data, which contains information that gives
users an easy-to-understand perspective of the information
stored in the data warehouse.
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12. 4. Access (Query) Tools
Query and Reporting tools can be divided into two groups:
– Reporting Tools and Managed Query Tools
– Reporting tools can be further divided into production
reporting tools and report writers.
Production reporting tools let companies generate regular
operational reports or support high-volume batch jobs such as
calculating and printing paychecks.
Report writers, on the other hand, are inexpensive desktop tools
designed for end-users.
– Managed query tools shield end users from the complexities
of SQL and database structures by inserting a meta-layer
between users and the database. These tools are designed for
easy-to-use, point-and-click operations that either accept SQL
or generate SQL database queries.
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13. 5. Data Mart
the term data mart means different things to
different people. A rigorous definition of this term
is a data store that is subsidiary to a data warehouse
of integrated data. The data mart is directed at a
partition of data (often called a subject area) that is
created for the use of a dedicated group of users.
These could be classified in two categories:
– Dependent Data Marts
– Independent Data Marts
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Dependent Data Marts: These types of data marts, data is
sourced from the data warehouse, have a high value because no
matter how they are deployed and how many different enabling
technologies are used, different users are all accessing the
information views derived from the single integrated version of
the data.
Independent Data Marts: Unfortunately, the misleading
statements about the simplicity and low cost of data marts
sometimes result in organizations or vendors incorrectly
positioning them as an alternative to the data warehouse. This
viewpoint defines independent data marts that in fact, represent
fragmented point solutions to a range of business problems in the
enterprise. This type of implementation should be rarely deployed
in the context of an overall technology or applications
architecture. Indeed, it is missing the ingredient that is at the
heart of the data warehousing concept -- that of data integration.
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6. Data Warehouse Administration and Management
Managing data warehouses includes:
1. Security and priority management
2. Monitoring updates from the multiple sources
3. Data quality checks
4. Managing and updating meta data
5. Auditing and reporting data warehouse usage
and status
6. Purging data
7. Replicating, sub-setting and distributing data
8. Backup and Recovery and
9. Data warehouse storage management.
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7. Information Delivery System
• The information delivery component is used to enable the process of
subscribing for data warehouse information and having it delivered to one or
more destinations according to some user-specified scheduling algorithm.
• In other words, the information delivery system distributes warehouse-stored
data and other information objects to other data warehouses and end-user
products such as spreadsheets and local databases.
•Delivery of information may be based on time of day or on the completion of
an external event.
•The rationale for the delivery systems component is based on the fact that
once the data warehouse is installed and operational, its users don't have to be
aware of its location and maintenance.
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Building a Data Warehouse
Why a Data Warehouse Application – Business Perspectives
There are several reasons why organizations consider Data
Warehousing a critical need. From a business prospective, to
strive and succeed in today’s highly competetive global
environment, business users demand business answers mainly
because:
• Decisions need to be made quickly and correctly, using all available
data
• Users are business domain experts, not computer professionals
• The amount of data increasing in the data stores, which affects
response time and the sheer ability to comprehend its content.
• Competitions is heating up in the areas of business intelligence and
added information value.
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Building a Data Warehouse
Why a Data Warehouse Application – Technology Perspectives
• There are several technology reasons also for existence of Data
Warehousing.
• First, the Data Warehouse is designed to address the incompatibility of
informational and operational transactional systems. These two classes of
information systems are designed to satisfy different , often incompatible,
requirements.
• Secondly, the IT infrastructure is changing rapidly, and its capabilities are
increasing, as evidenced by the following:
• The prices of MIPS continues to decline, while the power of processors
doubles every 2 years
• The prices of digital storage is rapidly dropping
• Network bandwidth is increasing, while the price of high bandwidth is
decreasing
• The workplace is increasingly heterogeneous with respect to both the
hardware and software
• Legacy systems need to, and can, be integrated with new applications
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Building a Data Warehouse
1. Business Considerations (Return on Investment)
2. Design Considerations
3. Technical Considerations
4. Implementation Considerations
5. Integrated Solutions
6. Benefits of Data Warehousing
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Building a Data Warehouse Contd..
1. Business Considerations (Return on Investment)
1. Approach
• The Top-down Approach, meaning that an organization has
developed an enterprise data model, collected enterprise-wide business
requirements, and decided to build an enterprise data warehouse with
subset data marts.
• The Bottom-up Approach, implying that the business priorities
resulted in developing individual data marts, which are then integrated
into enterprise data warehouse.
2. Organizational Issues
A Data Warehouse, in general, is not truly a technological issue, rather, it
should be more concerned with identifying and establishing information
requirements, the data sources to fulfill these requirements, and timeliness.
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Building a Data Warehouse Contd..
2. Design Consideration
To be a successful, a data warehouse designer must take a
holistic approach – consider all data warehouse components as
parts of a single complex system and take into the account all
possible data stores and all known usage requirements. Failing
to do so may easily result in a data warehouse design that is
skewed toward a particular business requirement, a particular
data sources, or a selected access tool. This is also one of the
reasons why a data warehouse is rather difficult to build. The
main factors include:
• Heterogeneity of Data sources, which affects data conversion,
quality, timeliness
• Use of historical data, while implies that data may be “old”.
• Tendency of databases to grow very large
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Building a Data Warehouse Contd..
2. Design Consideration - In addition to the general considerations,
there are several specific points relevant to the data warehouse
design:
• Data Content
• Metadata
• Data Distribution
One of the biggest challenge when designing a data warehouse is the data
placement and distribution strategy.
• Tools
These tools provide facilities for defining the transformation and cleanup
rules, data movement (from operational sources to the warehouses, end-user
query, reporting, and data analysis.
• Performance consideration
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3. Technical Considerations
A number of technical issues are to be considered when
designing and implementing a Data Warehouse environment.
1. The Hardware Platform that would house the Data Warehouse for
parallel query scalability. (Uni-Processor, Multi-processor, etc)
2. The DBMS that supports the warehouse database
3. The communication infrastructure that connects the warehouse, data
marts, operational systems, and end users
4. The hardware platform and software to support the metadata
repository
5. The systems management framework that enables centralized
management and administration to the entire environment.
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4. Implementation Considerations
i. Access Tools
Currently no single tool in the market can handle all possible data warehouse
access needs. Therefore, most implementations rely on a suite of tools.
Examples of Access types include:
a. Simple Tabular for reporting
b. Ranking
c. Multi-variable Analysis
d. Time Series Analysis
e. Data Visualization, Graphing, Charting and pivoting
f. Complex Textual Search
g. Statistical Analysis
h. AI Techniques for testing of hypothesis, trends discovery, definition,
validation of Data Clusters and segments
i. Information Mapping (i.e. mapping of Spatial Data in geographic information systems)
j. Ad-hoc User Specified Queries
k. Pre-defined repeatable queries
l. Interactive drill-down reporting and analysis
m. Complex queries with multiple joins, multi-level subquesries, and sophisticated
search criteria.
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4. Implementation Considerations
ii. Data Extraction, Cleanup, Transformation, and Migration
As a components of the Data Warehouse architecture, proper attention must be given to
Data Extraction, which represents a critical success factor for a data warehouse
architecture.
1. The ability to identify data in the data source environments that can be read by
conversion tool is important. This additional step may affect the timeliness of data
delivery to the warehouse.
2. Support for the flat files. (VSAM, ISM, IDMS) is critical, since bulk of the corporate
data is still maintained in this type of data storage.
3. The capability to merge data from multiple data stores is required in many
installations.
4. The specification interface to indicate the data to extracted and the conversion criteria
is important.
5. The ability to read information from data dictionaries or import information from
repository product is desired.
6. The ability to perform data-type and character-set translation is a requirement when
moving data moving between incompatible systems.
7. The capability to create summarization, aggregation, and derivation records and fields
is very important.
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iii. Data Placement Strategies
As Data Warehouse grows, there are at least two options for Data
Placement. One is to put some of the data in the data warehouse
into another storage media (WORM, RAID). Second option is to
distribute data in data warehouse across multiple servers. Some
criteria must be established for dividing it over the servers – by
geography, organization unit, time, function, etc. However, the
data is divided, a single source of meta data across the entire
organization is required. Hence this configuration requires both
corporation-wide and the meta data managed for any given server.
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4. Implementation Considerations
iv. Metadata
A frequently occurring problem in Data Warehouse is the
problem of communicating to the end user what
information resides in the data warehouse and how it can be
accessed. The key to providing users and applications with
a roadmap to the information stored in the warehouse is the
metadata. It can define all data elements and their
attributes, data sources and timing, and the rules that govern
data use and data transformations. Meta data needs to be
collected as the warehouse is designed and built.
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v. User Sophistication Levels
Data Warehousing is relatively new phenomenon, and a certain
degree of sophistication is required on the end user’s part to
effectively use the warehouse. The users can be classified on the
basis of their skill level in accessing the warehouse:
1. Casual Users: These users are most comfortable retrieving information
from the warehouse in pre-defined formats, and running preexisting queries and
reports.
2. Power Users: In their delay activities, these users typically combine
predefined queries with some relatively simple and ad-hoc queries that they
create themselves. These users need access tools that combine the simplicity of
pre-defined queries and reports with a certain degree of flexibility.
3. Experts: These users tend to create their own queries and perform
sophisticated analysis on the information they retrieve from the warehouse.
These users know the data, tools and database well enough to demand tools that
allow for maximum flexibility and adaptability.
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Benefits of Data Warehouse
Successfully implemented data warehousing can realize some significance
benefits which can be categorized in two categories:
1. Tangible Benefits:
1. Product inventory turnover is improved
2. Costs of product introduction are decreased with improved selection of
target markets.
3. More cost effective decision making is enabled by separating (ad-hoc) query
processing from running against operational database.
4. Better business intelligence is enabled by increased quality and flexibility of
market analysis available through multi-level data structures, which may range
from detailed to highly summarized.
2. Intangible Benefits:
1. Improved productivity
2. Reduced redundant processing, support, and software to support
overlapping decision support applications
3. Enhanced Customer relations through improved knowledge of individual
requirements and trends, through customization, improved communications,
and tailored product offerings.
4. Enabling business process reengineering – data warehousing can provide
useful insights into work process themselves,
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Warehouse Database
The organizations that embarked on data warehousing
development deal with ever increasing amounts of data. Generally
speaking, the size of a data warehouse rapidly approaches the point
where the search for better performance and scalability becomes a
real necessity. This search aims to pursue two goals:
– Speed-up: the ability to execute the same request on the same
amount data in less time
– Scale-up: the ability to obtain the same performance on the
same request as the database size increases.
An additional and important goal is to achieve linear speed-up and scale-up,
doubling the number of processors cuts the response time in half (linear
speed-up) or provides the same performance on twice as much data (linear
scale-up).
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Mapping the Data Warehouse to a
Multiprocessor Architecture
The goals of linear performance and scalability (discussed in
previous slide) can be satisfied by parallel hardware
architectures, parallel operating systems, and parallel DBMSs.
Parallel hardware architectures are based on Multi-processor
systems designed as a Shared-memory model (symmetric
multiprocessors), Shared-disk model or distributed-memory
model (MPP and Clusters of SMPs). Parallelism can be achieved
in two different ways:
– Horizontal Parallelism (Database is partitioned across different disks)
– Vertical Parallelism (occurs among different tasks – all components query
operations i.e. scans, join, sort)
– Data Partitioning
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Database Architectures for Parallel Processing
Shared-memory Architecture
Shared Disk Architecture
Shared-nothing Architecture
Combined Architecture
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Parallel RDBMS Features
Data Warehouse development requires a good understanding of all
architectural components, including the data warehouse DBMS
Platform. Understanding the basic architecture of Warehouse
database is the first step in evaluating and selecting a product.
State of the art parallel features the developers and users of the
Warehouse should demand from the DBMS vendor:
Scope and techniques of Parallel DBMS
Queries (Insert/ Update/Delete)
DBMS that supports parallel database load, backup, reorganization
and recovery is much better positioned for VLDBs.
Optimizer Implementation
Application Transparency
The Parallel environment
DBMS Management Tools
Price/ Performance
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Parallel DBMS Vendors
ORACLE – Oracle supports Parallel Database processing with its add-on
Oracle Parallel Server Option (OPS) and Parallel Query Option (PQO) with
Query Coordinator.
Informix – Informix developed its Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA) to
support Shared-Memory, Shared-Disk, and Shared-Nothing Models. Informix
OnLine release 8, also known as XPS (eXtended Parallel Server), supports MPP
Hardware platforms that include IBM, SP, AT & T, Sun, HP, ICL Goldrush, with
sequent, Siemens, Pyramid etc.
IBM – DB2 Parallel Edition (DB2 PE), a Database based on DB2/6000 Server
Architecture; latest version is DB2 Universal Database.
Sybase – Sybase implemented its parallel DBMS functionality in a product
called SYBASE MPP (formerly Navigational Server). It was jointly developed by
Sybase and NCR (formerly AT&T GIS), and its first release was targeted for the
AT&T 3400, 3500 (both SMP) and 3600 (MPP) Platforms.
Other RDBMS Products i. NCR Teradata ii. Tandem NonStop SQL/MP
Specialized Database Products - i. Red Brick Systems
ii. White Cross Systems Inc.
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DBMS Schemas for Decision
Support
Data Warehousing projects were forced to choose
between a data model and a corresponding database
schema that is intuitive for analysis but performs poorly
and a model-schema that performs better but is not well
suited for analysis.
As Data Warehousing continued to mature, new
approaches to schema design resulted in schemas better
suited to business analysis that is so crucial to
successful data warehousing.
The schema methodology that is gaining widespread
acceptance for Data Warehousing is the Star Schema.
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Data Layout for best Access
The original objective in developing an abstract model known as
Relational Model were to address a number of shortcomings of
non-relational DBMS and application development.
The typical requirements for the RDBMS supporting operational
systems are based on the need to effectively support a large
number of small but simultaneous read and write requests.
The demand placed on the RDBMS by a Data Warehouse are very
different. A data warehouse RDBMS typically needs to process
queries that are large, complex, ad-hoc and data intensive.
Solving modern business problems such as market analysis and
financial forecasting requires query-centric database schemas that
are array-oriented and multi-dimensional in nature.
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Multi-dimensional Data Model
The Multi-dimensional nature of business questions
is reflected in the fact that, for example, marketing
managers are no longer satisfied by asking simple
one-dimensional questions such as “How much
revenue did the new product generate by month, in
northeastern division, broken down by user
demographic, by sales office, relative to the previous
version of the product, compared with the plan?” – a
six dimensional question.
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STAR SCHEMA
The Multi-dimensional view of Data that is expressed using
relational database semantics is provided by the database
schema design called Star Schema.
The basic premise of Star Schema is that information can be
classified into two groups: facts and dimensions.
Facts are the core Data element being analyzed. For example,
units of individual items sold are facts.
Dimensions are attributes about the facts. For example,
dimensions are the product types purchased and date of
purchase.
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Data Extraction, Cleanup &
Transformation Tools
The task of capturing data from a source data system,
cleaning and transforming it and then loading the results into
a target data system can be carried out either by separate
products, or by a single integrated solution. More
contemporary integrated solutions can fall into one of the
categories described below:
– Code Generators
– Database data Replications
– Rule-driven Dynamic Transformation Engines (Data Mart
Builders)
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Code Generator
– It creates 3GL/4GL transformation programs based on source
and target data definitions, and data transformation and
enhancement rules defined by the developer.
– This approach reduces the need for an organization to write
its own data capture, transformation, and load programs.
These products employ DML Statements to capture a set of
the data from source system.
– These are used for data conversion projects, and for building
an enterprise-wide data warehouse, when there is a significant
amount of data transformation to be done involving a variety
of different flat files, non-relational, and relational data
sources.
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Database Data Replication Tools
– These tools employ database triggers or a recovery log to
capture changes to a single data source on one system and
apply the changes to a copy of the data source data located on
a different system.
– Most replication products do not support the capture of
changes to non-relational files and databases, and often do not
provide facilities for significant data transformation and
enhancement.
– These point-to-point tools are used for disaster recovery and
to build an operational data store, a data warehouse, or a data
mart when the number of data sources involved are small and
a limited amount of data transformation and enhancement is
required.
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Rule-driven Dynamic Transformation
Engines
– They are also known as Data Mart Builders and capture data from a
source system at User-defined intervals, transform data, and then send
and load the results into a target environment, typically a data mart.
– To date most of the products of this category support only relational
data sources, though now this trend have started changing.
– Data to be captured from source system is usually defined using query
language statements, and data transformation and enhancement is
done on a script or a function logic defined to the tool.
– With most tools in this category, data flows from source systems to
target systems through one or more servers, which perform the data
transformation and enhancement. These transformation servers can
usually be controlled from a single location, making the job of such
environment much easier.