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

From: <tday6_at_csc.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 10:04:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003D7A96.20011207093031@fatcity.com>

I don't think that size has much to do with it. You can have lots of data but if it's all in a few tables then it doesn't qualify as a datawarehouse
(IMHO).
My short take on this is that a datawarehouse is a OLTP database with de-normalized data that supports a DSS application.

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