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images as business metadata, and even really simple syndication (RSS)
feeds, maps, and weather data. Some of these new data sources become
links and do not go through ETL at all. A traditional ETL strategy and soft-
ware may not be able to handle some of these types of objects, and even
if they could, special hardware requirements would need to be considered,
owing to their large size. The same can be said for the staging area, which in
data warehouse architectures is usually a dedicated set of tables or separate
database. The staging area that houses business metadata may end up being
a combination ...