《计算机毕业设计++英语论文翻译》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《计算机毕业设计++英语论文翻译（7页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、1课程名班级姓名学号信息管理英语07 信息本（1）班张瑛70912030DATA WAREHOUSEData warehousing provides architectures and tools for business executives to systematically organize, understand, and use their data to make strategic decisions. A large number of organizations have found that data warehouse systems are valuable tool
2、s in todays competitive, fast evolving world. In the last several years, many firms have spent millions of dollars in building enterprise-wide data warehouses. Many people feel that with competition mounting in every industry, data warehousing is the latest must-have marketing weapon a way to keep c
3、ustomers by learning more about their needs. “So“, you may ask, full of intrigue, “what exactly is a data warehouse?“ Data warehouses have been defined in many ways, making it difficult to formulate a rigorous definition. Loosely speaking, a data warehouse refers to a database that is maintained sep
4、arately from an organizations operational databases. Data warehouse systems allow for the integration of a variety of application systems. They support information processing by providing a solid platform of consolidated, historical data for analysis. According to W. H. Inmon, a leading architect in
5、 the construction of data warehouse systems, “a data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data in support of managements decision making process.“ This short, but comprehensive definition presents the major features of a data warehouse. The four ke
6、ywords, subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile, distinguish data warehouses from other data repository systems, such as relational database systems, transaction processing systems, and file systems. Lets take a closer look at each of these key features. (1)Subject-oriented: A da
7、ta warehouse is organized around major subjects, such as customer, vendor, product, and sales. Rather than concentrating on the day-to-day operations and transaction processing of an organization, a data warehouse focuses on the modeling and analysis of data for decision makers. Hence, data warehous
8、es typically provide a simple and concise view around particular subject issues by excluding data that are not useful in the decision support process. (2)Integrated: A data warehouse is usually constructed by integrating multiple heterogeneous sources, such as relational databases, flat files, and o
9、n-line transaction records. Data cleaning and data integration techniques are applied to ensure consistency in naming conventions, encoding structures, attribute measures, and so on(3)Time-variant: Data are stored to provide information from a historical perspective (e.g., the past 5-10 years). Ever
10、y key structure in the data warehouse contains, either implicitly or explicitly, an element of time. (4)Nonvolatile: A data warehouse is always a physically separate store of data transformed from the application data found in the operational environment. Due to this separation, a data warehouse doe
11、s not require transaction processing, recovery, and concurrency control mechanisms. It usually requires only two operations in data accessing: initial loading of data and access of data In sum, a data warehouse is a semantically consistent data store that serves as a physical implementation of a dec
12、ision support data model and stores the information on which an enterprise needs to make strategic decisions. A data warehouse is also often viewed as an architecture, constructed by integrating data from multiple heterogeneous sources to support structured and/or ad hoc queries, analytical reportin
13、g, and decision making. “OK“, you now ask, “what, then, is data warehousing?“2Based on the above, we view data warehousing as the process of constructing and using data warehouses. The construction of a data warehouse requires data integration, data cleaning, and data consolidation. The utilization
14、of a data warehouse often necessitates a collection of decision support technologies. This allows “knowledge workers“ (e.g., managers, analysts, and executives) to use the warehouse to quickly and conveniently obtain an overview of the data, and to make sound decisions based on information in the wa
15、rehouse. Some authors use the term “data warehousing“ to refer only to the process of data warehouse construction, while the term warehouse DBMS is used to refer to the management and utilization of data warehouses. We will not make this distinction here. “How are organizations using the information
16、 from data warehouses?“ Many organizations are using this information to support business decision making activities, including: (1) increasing customer focus, which includes the analysis of customer buying patterns (such as buying preference, buying time, budget cycles, and appetites for spending). (2) repositioning products and managing product portfolios by comparing the performance of sales by quarter, by year, and by geographic regions, in
