Data warehousing gives us architecture and tools for business executives for their

business analytics and decisions.

Dataware house generalize and store subject oriented data in multidimensional

space.

Data warehouse steps

Data cleaning, integration, transformation,

Dataware house properties:

Subject-Oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile

data in dataware house is Read-Only

3 tier data warehousing architecture :

diagram

Data mart: contains the subset of subject orineted data from the data warehouse

Dataware house functions:

Extraction, Transformation, Loading (ETL)
extraction, cleaning, transformation, load and refresh

Data warehouse tools are based on a multi-dimensional data model specifically in

the form of a data cube.

data cube is defined by dimensions and facts. It allows data to be viewed in

multiple dimensions.

dimensions are the attributes of the data which wants to store in the database

Data warehouse schemas: Stars, Snowflakes, Fact Constellations

Data warehouse requires a concise, subject-oriented schema that facilates online

data analysis

Most popular data model for data warehouse is multidimensional model and examples
are star schema, snowfake etc