DB2 Data Warehouse Concepts

Your organization may contain data in a variety of logical and physical DB2 servers. Each business unit may have their own database(s) containing vital information such as sales, inventory, and other forms of operational data. The largest business units may use DB2 for z-Series as their backend database server, while medium-sized units employ DB2 for AIX or DB2 for i-Series. Furthermore, if your organization employs decentralized or siloed information management, similar operational data for different business units may be stored in tables with different names and formats. This is also common when an organization grows by acquiring other companies, thereby inheriting new data architectures along the way.

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