The Modern Data Warehouse in Azure: Building with Speed and Agility on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

© Matt How 2020

M. HowThe Modern Data Warehouse in Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5823-1_9

9. Beyond the Modern Data Warehouse

Matt How¹ 

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Alton, UK

 

In days gone by, a data warehouse stood as a slow-moving, often large, unwieldly part of a wider decision support system. While tools and technologies that feed to or read from the data warehouse may develop, the complexity of such an artifact and the investment in its development mean that the warehouse would rarely benefit from such upgrades. Throughout this book, I have explained and demonstrated the highlights of building a modern data warehouse in Azure – one which can be developed rapidly and be highly flexible to source system requirements, one which can move and develop with the times ...