December 1998
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
6h 56m
English
With the data warehouse in production, the warehousing team will face a new set of challenges—the maintenance and evolution of the warehouse.
New or updated data must be loaded regularly from the source systems into the data warehouse to ensure that the latest data are available to warehouse users. This loading is typically conducted during the evenings, when the operational systems can be taken offline. Each step in the back-end process—extract, transform, quality assure, and load—must be performed for each warehouse load.
New warehouse loads imply the need to calculate and populate aggregate tables with new records. In cases where the data warehouse feeds one or more data marts, ...
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