Data Warehousing Technology Overview
Much of the conversation about data warehousing involves elaborating on subtle distinctions among the various uses of the basic technology. From the point of view of typical use, a few general categories seem to emerge. While each can present a bewildering number of variants, the essence remains fairly consistent. While the illustrations that follow may take up to a minute to load over a dialup connection—please be patient in that case—one point of view is illustrated here:
