CHAPTER 3 DATABASES AND DATA WAREHOUSES Building Business Intelligence CONTACT INFORMATION: Stephen Haag is the primary author of this chapter. If you have any questions or comments‚ please direct them to him at shaag@du.edu. THIS CHAPTER/MODULE IN SHORT FORM… This chapter introduces your students to the vitally important role of information in an organization and the various technology tools (databases‚ DBMSs‚ data warehouses‚ and data-mining tools) that facilitate the management
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Database Concepts Terminology In general‚ there are many acronyms and a lot of terminology used throughout the entire Information Technology (IT) field that is not used anywhere else. In this paper‚ I will briefly describe the following five terms: Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)‚ Data warehouse‚ data mart‚ three-tier architecture‚ and Active Server Pages. Online Analytical Processing OLAP "On-Line Analytical Processing - A category of applications and technologies for collecting‚ managing
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BUSINESS MATH Simple Interest and Simple Discount Business Math‚ Eighth Edition Cleaves/Hobbs © 2009 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ 07458 All Rights Reserved 11.1 The Simple Interest Formula Find simple interest by using the simple interest formula. Find the maturity of a loan. Convert months to a fractional or decimal part of the year. Find the principal‚ rate or time using the simple interest formula. Business Math‚ Eighth Edition Cleaves/Hobbs © 2009 Pearson
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Abstract Software architecture plays an important role in the achievement of particular qualities we want to see in our software under development. On the other hand specific software demands some distinct qualities in software architecture. Now question arises how software architecture becomes the base to achieve the certain qualities and how qualities influence the architecture. Architecture provides the base for the development of the core product so by inspecting the architecture we can predict
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An online database a collection of organized data that can be accessed from various networks‚ like the internet. Usually‚ databases are used for things like booking a seat or a room in planes or hotels‚ or even online shopping. In this report‚ I have chosen to discuss two databases that are quite different‚ and investigate on the benefits and detriments of the storage of data in online information systems. The two databases I have chosen to discuss are YouTube and Amazon. These databases are some
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Migration of Databases – An XML Approach XML Database Migration is a project of migrating the existing databases into XML format. Conversion of databases to XML file format‚ the databases like Ms-Access‚ Oracle and MS-SQL‚ MySQL connects in the network or the oracle in the personal computer can be connected for the generation of XML code. Let us consider‚ user runs a firm with three companies with different database’s respectively. User planned to mingle the entire database’s of the firm in to
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behaviours teenagers go through are the leading causes of teenage death. Alcohol‚ the most widely used and abused drug among youth‚ causes serious and potentially life-threatening problems for this population. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. Society faces several questions‚ like why do teens drink‚ what are the results of teen drinking and driving‚ and how can society change this pattern. Every year hundreds of teens die. Apart from drinking and driving‚ teen suicide
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The Database Team has been assigned the task of upgrading Florida Food Mart’s outdated inventory processing system by designing and implementing a state of the art relational database management system utilizing MS Access integrated with Florida Food Marts present point-of-sale (POS) software. The Database Team has agreed to have a fully functional system in place by December 1‚ 2002. A preliminary budget of $75‚000.00 has been approved and allocated to this project. Scope The Database Team
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Philosophy and the Benefits That This Science Entails It is human nature to constantly ponder and think about how we can enrich our lives. Unfortunately‚ for many years society has been telling us that the only way to “enrich” our lives it to partake in the quest to achieve the American Dream and fill the emptiness that we sometimes feel as humans with artificial and material objects. But it is with the concept of philosophy that us as humans can break away from the stereotypical mold of material
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functional dependency. Can you find a good example? In relational database theory‚ a functional dependency is a constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation from a database. Cars Suppose one is designing a system to track vehicles and the capacity of their engines. Each vehicle has a unique vehicle identification number (VIN). One would write VIN → Engine Capacity because it would be inappropriate for a vehicle’s engine to have more than one capacity. (Assuming ‚ in this case‚ that vehicles
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