RE: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

Ross
Size doesn't matter.
No, really.
Who's imposing the "amount of data" constraint?? Push Dodge and Gorman's "Oracle8 Data Warehousing" book toward your damagement, and somehow trick them into reading the first chapter. They quote Inmon (of course) -- a data warehouse is a "subject oriented, integrated, nonvolatile, and time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions". Actually, this manual is a good read on the subject.

On a lighter note -- we don't have a warehouse, we have a "data mart". Cuz we were too small to be a warehouse (at only 30 gigs).

xxxxx
Barb

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> Subject: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.
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> Informal survey: Datawarehousing.
>
> Limiting Assumption: "A necessary and sufficient condition for defining
> something
> to be a datawarehouse is the amount of data
> to be stored."
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> Question/Poll: Given the above ridiculous constraint, at/above what size
> can something
> be considered a data warehouse?
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