Re: Need Help on Operational Data Store

Dennis,

I think you got it wrong right off when you stated that there's a "lot of confusion in ODS vs. DW ".

It isn't that issue at all. No two people can agree on what an ODS is at all, much less compare it to a DW.

To me for instance, an ODS is a place to stage data for the final stages of some other process, be it a DW, or anything else.

An ODS is a rather generic term, and therefor whatever you want it to be.

Jared

On Friday 08 November 2002 07:59, dmeng_at_focal.com wrote:
> Greetings -
> I need some help with building an Operational Data Store. I know there are
> a lot of confusion in ODS vs. DW but I belong to the camp of 'ODS should be
> used only for operational reporting, not decision support'. So while
> Kimball talks a lot about building a DW in his books, he does not cover ODS
> much. Are there any books/websites/third parties that deal with building an
> ODS?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Dennis Meng
> Database Administrator
> Focal Communications Corp.

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