Re: Top Ten Errors In Data Wareousing
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:44:54 GMT
Message-ID: <Kenneth.D.Atkins.6.2F536115_at_tek.com>
Having recently been assigned to a warehousing project, I had the same question (i.e. what is a data warehouse?). However, since it is a HOT buzzword at this time, there are some good articles in the trade press:
'Data Warehousing: Energizes Your Enterprise' DATAMATION, February, 1995 'Data Warehouse: Architecture for the Information Age' ORACLE MAGAZINE, January/February 1995
Both of these articles have helped me understand the concepts, and have influenced our warehouse design. The 'Datamation' article has a nice definition of what a Data Warehouse is.
Kenneth Atkins
Financial Data Systems Inc.
Kenneth.D.Atkins_at_tek.com
In article <3i8duh$86b_at_newsbf02.news.aol.com> pineryjim_at_aol.com (PINERYJIM)
writes:>From: pineryjim_at_aol.com (PINERYJIM)
>Subject: Re: Top Ten Errors In Data Wareousing
>Date: 19 Feb 1995 16:41:37 -0500
>I have seen a couple of posts in this newsgroup (comp.databases.pick) that
>have referred to the term data warehousing and have struggled to define
>it.
>Now that we apparently have an institute dedicated to the practice of data
>warehousing I'm wondering if the term also has an institutionalized
>definition. Just what is it you do when you warehouse data? Or, from a
>different perspective, what kind of data does a warehouse contain? Or, am
>I missing the point altogether?
>Cynic that I am, I suspect that data warehousing is just another jazzed up
>buzzword for something we have been doing all along. Sort of like voice
>mail is the new term for answering machine. Not quite the same thing, I
>know, but not significantly different.
>I'm hoping Mr. Taylor will have a moment to enlighten.
>Jim Harger
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