data warehouse

1.data source means the source location called as remote location.

2.source data may contain data in the form of structured semi structured and uns
tructured
unstruct->flat file
sturct->html,db.
1.problems related to os network,technology,platform.
2.retrieve the data
3.ETL (extract transform load).
4.part of data goes to three things
4.1)data repository /metadata reppository
4.2) catalogue index
4.3)data marts
4.4)special db
on what basis we decide number of columns in dw?
->
dat ametadata information
metadata->repository