OLTP- OLTP queries are used to peform DDL operations on a database.

OLTP systems use data stored in the form of two-dimensional tables, with rows and columns.

OLAP- it is used to perform real time analysis on multidimensional data in a warehouse. It deals with
De-normalized data.

Grain- level at which business event occurs. E.g, day level,week level

The depth of data level is known as granularity.

Additive fact- total of sales amounts.

Semi additive fact- bank account balance, it can be summed up across customer dimension but it
doesnt make sense to add up daily balance (adding two days balance) on time dimension.

(Total Daily average balance of customer across 1000 customer).

(Daily average balance for two days- not valid)

Non additive fact- any ratio/percentage pre calculated and stored in fact

(Sum of all discount for today)

Factless fact- Tables which dont contain numeric fact column in it.

(only connection with dimension and not measures)

e.g. charity org- customer walked date and time and product type, no sales or tax amount stored.

(seminar- age group,topic of listener, no measures)

Confirmed dimension- Table which is used by more than one fact tables.

(Reusable dimension, used across multiple department)

Startup indu-Sales/shipping dept- customer, account,product,address,time dimension reused .

Confirmed fact-fact which is used in more than one fact tables.

e.g. when sales occurs, shipping, inventory dept will be interest to see details to start their work.

Aggregate Tables-sales by hour, summing data on existing warehouse data on base fact table.

Less number of records in aggregate table. Query performance.

Summary information- place where aggregations are kept.

Metadata- source data.

Glaxy schema(fact constellation)- it contains more than 1 fact table.

Confirmed dimension- Dimension tables which are shared by more than one fact table.
Real time data warehousing- it captures the business data whenever it occurs(instantly).