FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS

DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Data Warehouse provides the best support for analysis while OLAP carries out the ____ task.
A
Mandatory
B
Whole
C
Analysis
D
Prediction
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The data warehouse supports on-line analytical processing (OLAP), the functional and performance requirements of which are quite different from those of the on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applications traditionally supported by the operational databases.

Detailed explanation-2: -Data Warehouse is the example of OLAP system. OLTP stands for On-Line Transactional processing. It is used for maintaining the online transaction and record integrity in multiple access environments. OLTP is a system that manages very large number of short online transactions for example, ATM.

Detailed explanation-3: -A data warehouse is an archive while OLAP is one of the technologies that analyze and evaluate its stored information. In a data warehouse, OLAP allows for fast querying and analysis of data from different perspectives. It also helps in pre-aggregating and pre-calculating the information available in the archive.

Detailed explanation-4: -Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential elements of decision support, which has increasingly become a focus of the database industry. s. An OLAP system is market-oriented and is used for data analysis by knowledge workers, including managers, executives and analysts.

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