| Data Warehouse Glossary |
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| CASE |
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Computer Aided Software Engineering. |
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| CASE Tools |
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A set of integrated Computer-Aided Systems Engineering (CASE) and application development tools that assist in software development; for example, analyzing business requirements, designing applications, generating application code, etc. |
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| CASE Management |
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The management of information between multiple CASE "encyclopedias," whether the same or different CASE tools. |
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| Category |
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A structure for organizing, typing, and representing a dimension of a multidimensional cube. |
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| Catalog |
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A component of a data dictionary that contains a directory of its DBMS objects as well as attributes of each object. |
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| Central Repository |
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Location of a collection of documentation, customizations, modifications, or enhancements designed to alleviate the recreation of successfully completed work. |
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| Central Warehouse |
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A database created from operational extracts that adheres to a single, consistent, enterprise data model to ensure consistency of decision-support data across the corporation. A style of computing where all the information systems are located and managed from a single physical location. |
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| Classic Data Warehouse Development |
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The process of building an enterprise business model, creating a system data model, defining and designing a data warehouse architecture, constructing the physical database, and lastly populating the warehouses database. |
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| Client/Server |
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A type of technical architecture that links many personal computers or workstations (clients) to one or more large processors (servers). Clients generally manage the user interface, possibly with some local data. Servers usually manage multiple-access databases, including ensuring data integrity and other invariants. |
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| Client/Server Processing |
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A form of cooperative processing in which the end-user interaction is through a programmable workstation (desktop) that must execute some part of the application logic over and above display formatting and terminal emulation. |
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| Collection |
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A set of data that resulted from a DBMS query. |
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| Computer Network |
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An interconnected group of computers. |
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| Custom Code |
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Coding added to a packaged application or module generated by a CASE tool to implement functionality that the application or generator has not provided. |
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| Conformed Dimension |
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A dimension that has exactly the same meaning and content when being referred from different fact tables. |
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| Communications Integrity |
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An operational quality that ensures transmitted data has been accurately received at its destination. |
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| Consumer |
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An individual, group or application that accesses data/information in a data warehouse. |
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| Consumer Profile |
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Identification of an individual, group or application and a profile of the data they request and use: the kinds of warehouse data, physical relational tables needed, and the required location and frequency of the data (when, where, and in what form it is to be delivered). |
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| Cooperative Processing |
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A style of computer application processing in which the presentation, business logic, and data management are split among two or more software services that operate on one or more computers. In cooperative processing, individual software programs (services) perform specific functions that are invoked by means of parameterized messages exchanged between them. |
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| Critical Success Factors |
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Key areas of activity in which favorable results are necessary for a company to reach its goal. |
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