1.Difference between OLTP and OLAP S.No 1 OLTP Abbreviation: OLTP stands for transactional processing .

2 Meaning: OLTP is designed to efficiently process high volumes of transactions, instantly recording business events (such as a sales invoice payment) and reflecting changes as they occur. 3 Used in: OLAP Abbreviation: Online OLAP stands for Online analytical processing . Meaning: OLAP is designed for analysis and decision support, allowing exploration of often hidden relationships in large amounts of data by providing unlimited views of multiple relationships at any cross-section of defined business dimensions. Used in:

ERP, TX system, Client Server Data warehouse application - MOLAP, Architecture, Desktop application ROLAP, HOLAP 4 Data Provision: Current data 5 Type of Database Transactions: Short database transactions 6 Type of update/insert/delete: Online update/insert/delete 7 Normalization/Denomalization: Data Provision: Current and historical data Type of Database Transactions: Long database transactions Type of update/insert/delete: Batch update/insert/delete Normalization/Denomalization:

Normalization is promoted (1st Denormalization is promoted normal form, second normal form (Dimension and Fact design). and third normal form). 8 Volume of Transactions: High volume of transactions 9 Transaction Recovery Needed: Transaction recovery is necessary 10 Amount of Index Requirement: Less Index Volume of Transactions: Low volume of transactions Transaction Recovery Needed: Transaction recovery is not necessary Amount of Index Requirement: More Index

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Amount of Join Requirement: More Joins Model:

Amount of Join Requirement: Less Joins Model:

Adopts an entity relationship(ER) Adopts star, snowflake or fact model constellation model and a subjectoriented database design 13 Orientation: Orientation:

Customer-oriented, used for data Market-oriented, used for data analysis analysis and querying by clerks, by knowledge workers( managers, clients and IT professionals executives, analysis) 14 Source: Daily transactions. 15 Motive: Source: OLTP Motive: and search by

Faster insert, updates, deletes and Faster analysis improve data quality by reducing combining tables. redundancy. 16 SQL complexity: Simple and Medium. SQL complexity:

Highly complex due to analysis and forecasting.

2.Difference between DTS and SSIS S.No 1 2 DTS DTS stands for Transformation Services SSIS Data SSIS stands for Sql Server Integration Services

DTS is a set of objects using an SSIS is an ETL tool provided by ETS tool to extract, transform, Microsoft to extra data from different and load information to or from a sources. database DTS was originally part of the SSIS is a component of the Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SQL Server 2005 Uses Activex Script No Deployment available wizard Uses Scripting Language is Deployment wizard is available

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Limited Set of Transformation Huge of Transformations available available

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Does not support BI Functionality Single Task at a time It is Unmanaged script DTS can develop Enterprise manager

Completely supports process of BI Multi Tasks run parallely It is managed by CLR

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through SSIS can develop through Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS, nothing but new version of VS IDE)

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We can deploy only at local server It can be deployed using multiple server using BIDS Designer contains Single Pane SSIS designer contains 4 design panes: a) Control Flow b) Data Flow c) Event Handlers & d) Package Explorer. Event Handler Available Solution Explorer is available, with packages, connections and Data Source Views (DSV)

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No Event Hander No Solution Explorer

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Connection and other values are It can be controlled dynamically using static, not controlled at runtime. configuration

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