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Question:  What is the main differnce between schema in RDBMS and schemas in DataWarehouse....?



February 02, 2006 02:52:56 #5
 senthil kumar B   Member Since: Visitor    Total Comments: N/A 

RE: What is the main differnce between schema in RDBMS...
 

Diff b.w OLTP and OLAP :
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OLTP Schema  :
* Normalized
* More no.of trans
* Less time for queries execution
* More no.of users
* Have Insert,delete and update trans.
 
OLAP (DWH) Schema  :

* De Normalized
* Less no.of trans
* Less no.of users
* More time for query exec
* Will not have more insert,delete and updates.

     

 

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