... with a foreign key. The flattened paradigm of a data warehouse database allows for significantly faster select statements to be run against the database. Unlike most user-facing database queries, most data mining queries are highly complex and most work through a massive amount of data. Whereas a user-facing query usually takes less than a second to process, a data mining query may take hours. It is important to reduce ... the amount of time and processing required for data mining in order to keep costs down. When used correctly, data warehousing and data mining can lead businesses to ma...

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... industry is described. One of the technology areas that will be critical to supporting this business model is data warehousing. Data warehousing is the process of integrating enterprise wide corporate data into a single repository. The resulting data warehouse may then support a variety of decision analysis functions as well as strategic operational functions. The " ... father" of the data-warehousing concept, W. H. Inmon, states that a data warehouse is a "subject oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection of data in support of management's decision-making process." Benef...

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