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Data Warehousing

Data warehousing is an approach to designing integrated repositories of historical business data optimized for analysis and reporting. Pioneered by William Inmon and Ralph Kimball in the early 1990s, data warehouses consolidate data from diverse operational sources into a centralized, time-stamped, non-volatile store supporting complex queries across multiple dimensions.

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Sources

  1. Inmon, W. H. (1992). Building the Data Warehouse. New York: QED Technical Publishing. link
  2. Kimball, R. (1996). The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses. New York: John Wiley & Sons. link
  3. Kimball, R., & Ross, M. (2013). The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling (3rd ed.). Wiley. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415807-7.00001-7

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