What is the need of building a data warehouse?
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Answer / ashish goel
Data warehouse is generally designed for analyzing the
business operations but not to run the business operations.
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Answer / vas.chiky
Having separate OLAP DWH database for analysis, increases
the performance of reports.
even during backup or crash period of oltp, OLAP database
will not get affected.
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