Sunday, August 30, 2015

Data Warehousing Basics - 1



 I am not here to teach the basics by books which you will never understand. We must only eat whatever we can digest. Will start off with a quick introduction to Datawarehousing.



What is Data ? 
Collection of information. Sales Data, Profit and Loss Statements, HR Data etc.

What does Data contain ?
It consists of subject area specific information on the performance and measure.
Sales Data : Consists of Sales information
HR - Human Resource Info about employees , payrolls etc

What are different types of  Sales data?
Regional Sales , State Sales, City Sales

How is data stored?
Data is stored in Tables.  

How are Tables stored?
Tables are stored in Databases.

What are different kinds of Databases?
ORACLE, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Teradata.

Databases softwares which help to store the data at an organization level.
Stored in several number of Databases

What is a database?
Collection of tables in the Database.(mostly subject area related)

How do we retrieve the data from the Database?
By passing set of commands called as "Query"


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