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Data Warehouses

ALSO CALLED: Data Stores, Datawarehousing, Data Ware-house, Datawarehouse, Data Warehousing, Knowledge Warehouse, and Dataware House
DEFINITION: A data warehouse is a central repository for all or significant parts of the data that an enterprise's various business systems collect. The term was coined by W. H. Inmon. IBM sometimes uses the term "information warehouse."

Typically, a data warehouse is housed on an enterprise mainframe  … 
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DATA WAREHOUSES DEFINITION (continued): …  server. Data from various online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and other sources is selectively extracted and organized on the data warehouse database for use by analytical applications and user queries. Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for useful analysis and access, but does not generally start from the point-of-view of the end user or knowledge worker who may need access to specialized, sometimes local databases. The … 
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