RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-11 Thread Jared . Still
PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store Jared And just think, if you'd given it a snappy name like ODS, you'd be jetting around to big conventions and big corporate clients, hosting the greatest technical advice line on the Internet . .

RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
2 11:24 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store Jared Oh, I wouldn't let Bill Inmon hear you say that. He coined the term Operational Data

Re: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread Tim Gorman
egories, because an ODS (not a DW, not another "operational system", not a simple "reporting database copy") is a better solution for all of them...   Hope this helps...   -Tim   - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list OR

RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
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RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread Jared . Still
Subject: RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store Jared Oh, I wouldn't let Bill Inmon hear you say that. He coined the term Operational Data Store. I do not purport to be a data warehouse expert at the least, but several years ago I studied the literature quite a bit and tried t

Re: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread dmeng
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RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jared Oh, I wouldn't let Bill Inmon hear you say that. He coined the term Operational Data Store. I do not purport to be a data warehouse expert at the least, but several years ago I studied the literature quite a bit and tried to keep on top of the topics. And the subject has evolved some since

Re: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread Jared Still
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

RE: Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dennis - Bill Inmon is the patron saint of the ODS people. Pretty much equal industry status with Ralph. Claims the title of "The Father of Data Warehousing" (right there on his site). Start with his Web site at http://www.billinmon.com/. His articles are published on DB Review magazine, http://www

Need Help on Operational Data Store

2002-11-08 Thread dmeng
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 c