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ITMD 526 - Week 2 -Blog

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Introduction Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is computer processing that empowers a client to effortlessly and specifically extricate and see information from various perspectives. The OLAP term originates from customary data warehousing from times when "big data" would fit into your present portable workstation and it was tedious to prepare even that little sum contrasted with today's principles. OLAP permits clients to dissect database data from numerous database frameworks at one time. OLAP data is stored in multidimensional databases. OLAP composes actualities into measurements which are ways that the truths can be separated. For example, total sales may have the capacity to be separated by geology. So also, total sales may likewise be separated by time. Measurements are additionally progressive systems of levels. For example, a geography measurement may contain the levels of nation, state, and area. Also, a period mea...

ITMD526-Week1-Blog

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INTRODUCTION TO DATA WAREHOUSING Data resources are colossally profitable to any venture, and on account of this, these benefits must be legitimately put away and promptly available when they are required. Be that as it may, the accessibility of an excess of information makes the extraction of the most vital data troublesome, if not unimaginable.  A   Data Warehouse  is a database intended to empower business insight exercises: it exists to help clients comprehend and upgrade their association's execution. It is intended for query and analysis as opposed to for transaction handling, and as a rule contains historical data got from transaction information, however can incorporate data from different sources. Data warehouses isolate investigation workload from exchange workload and empower an association to solidify data from a few sources. The term "Data Warehouse" was first coined by Bill Inmon in 1990. Per Inmon, a data warehouse is a subject oriented, integr...