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Introduction
The implementation of a data warehouse requires that you consider the following:
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Physical Architect
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Hardware
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Software
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Tools
Hardware
Exponential growth curve in the amount of data that is collected.
Criteria for selection:
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Cheap
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Easy to Maintain
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Ability to increase performance by the simple addition of processors or peripheral devices
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Vendor Support
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Wide usage in area
Software
Criteria for selection
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Portability
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Scalable
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Inexpensive
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Easy to Learn
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Network Independence
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Vendor Support
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Wide usage in area
Tools
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Tools for simple queries
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Tools for simple reports
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Tools for Online analytical processing (OLAP)
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Executive information System
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Data Mining
Issues
Government mandate research data
A trend underway in the business world is the method of sending smaller “bursts” of data to the warehouse or the staging platform. This is done in order to have a more up-to-picture of your warehouse data. For the data that we are discussing here, this may not be necessary.