Thursday, October 16, 2014

Data Warehouse Tools and Utilities Functions

Data Warehouse Tools and Utilities Functions

The following are the functions of Data Warehouse tools and Utilities:
  • Data Extraction - Data Extraction involves gathering the data from multiple heterogeneous sources.
  • Data Cleaning - Data Cleaning involves finding and correcting the errors in data.
  • Data Transformation - Data Transformation involves converting data from legacy format to warehouse format.
  • Data Loading - Data Loading involves sorting, summarizing, consolidating, checking integrity and building indices and partitions.
  • Refreshing - Refreshing involves updating from data sources to warehouse.
Note: Data Cleaning and Data Transformation are important steps in improving the quality of data and data mining results.

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