What is a Data Warehouse?

Posted: Oct/06/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: DataWarehousing - Others Views:106 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

According to Inmon, famous author for several data warehouse books, "A data warehouse is a subject oriented, integrated, time variant, non volatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process

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