信息科学类专业英语Lesson 10 Data Warehouse Overview.pptVIP

　　The word data warehouse was first developed by Bill Inmon in the early 1990s. He referred to it as being a integrated collection of information that could help companies and organizations make better decisions.　　To be effective, a data warehouse had to be integrated, subject oriented, non-volatile, and time variant. In this article, I will go over all these factors in detail. If you are building a data warehouse, it is important for you to understand why they are important. 　　Being subject oriented means that the data will provide information about a specific subject rather than the inform