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What is the Difference between a ODS and Staging Area

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Last Update: August 09, 2007 Asked by: nagireddy

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March 28, 2007 07:45:15

mithunmca

Member Since: January 2007 Contribution: 7

RE: What is the Difference between a ODS and Staging A...

ODS :-Operational Data Store which contains data .
           ods comes after the staging area
eg:-
       In our e.g lets consider that we have day level Granularity in the OLTP & Year level Granularity in the Data warehouse.
        If the business(manager) asks for week level Granularity then we have to go to the oltp and summarize the day level to the week level which would be pain taking.So wat we do is that we maintain week level Granularity in the ods for the data,for abt 30 to 90 days.

Note : Ods information would contain cleansed data only. ie after staging area

Staging Area :-
                        It comes after the etl has finished.Staging Area consists of
                        1.Meta Data .
                        2.The work area where we apply our complex business rules.
                        3.Hold the data and do calculations.
In other words we can say that its a temp work area.

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August 09, 2007 04:33:42

siraj khan

RE: What is the Difference between a ODS and Staging A...

The full form of ODS is Operational Data Store.ODS is a layer between the source and target databases..ODS is used to store the recent data.

Staging layer is also a layer between the source and target databases..Staging layer is used for cleansing purpose and store the data periodically.

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