Data Warehousing, including: Data Warehouse, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Mart, Document Warehouse, Olap Cube, Star Schema, Bill Inmon, Fact Table, ... Dimension (data Warehouse), Ralph Kimball

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More info: A data warehouse is a repository (collection of resources that can be accessed to retrieve information) of an organization's electronically stored data, designed to facilitate reporting and analysis. More simply, a data warehouse is a collection of a large amount of data.