Chapter 12Databases for Online Analytical Processing

Key Skills & Concepts

image Data Warehouses

image Data Marts

image Data Mining

Starting in the 1980s, businesses recognized the need for keeping historical data and using it for analysis to assist in decision making. It was soon apparent that data organized for use by day-to-day business transactions was not as useful for analysis. In fact, storing significant amounts of history in an operational database (a database ...

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