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Data Warehousing
Dr. Hany Saleeb
Data Warehousing and OLAP
Technology for Data Mining
Office Day
Month
A Sample Data Cube
Total annual sales
Date of TV in U.S.A.
1Qtr 2Qtr 3Qtr 4Qtr sum
TV
PC U.S.A
VCR
Country
sum
Canada
Mexico
sum
Cuboids Corresponding to
the Cube
all
0-D(apex) cuboid
product date country
1-D cuboids
3-D(base) cuboid
product, date, country
Typical OLAP Operations
Roll up (drill-up): summarize data
by climbing up hierarchy or by dimension reduction
Drill down (roll down): reverse of roll-up
from higher level summary to lower level summary or detailed
data, or introducing new dimensions
Slice and dice:
project and select
Pivot (rotate):
reorient the cube, visualization, 3D to series of 2D planes.
Other operations
drill across: involving (across) more than one fact table
drill through: through the bottom level of the cube to its back-
end relational tables (using SQL)
Data Warehousing and OLAP
Technology for Data Mining
Monitor
& OLAP Server
other Metadata
sources Integrator
Analysis
Operational Extract Query
Transform Data Serve Reports
DBs
Load
Refresh
Warehouse Data mining
Data Marts