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  2. Dimension (data warehouse) - Wikipedia

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    A slowly changing dimension is a set of data attributes that change slowly over a period of time rather than changing regularly e.g. address or name. These attributes can change over a period of time and that will get combined as a slowly changing dimension.

  3. Star schema - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions can define a wide variety of characteristics, but some of the most common attributes defined by dimension tables include: Time dimension tables describe time at the lowest level of time granularity for which events are recorded in the star schema; Geography dimension tables describe location data, such as country, state, or city ...

  4. Early-arriving fact - Wikipedia

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    In the data warehouse practice of extract, transform, load (ETL), an early fact or early-arriving fact, [1] also known as late-arriving dimension or late-arriving data, [2] denotes the detection of a dimensional natural key during fact table source loading, prior to the assignment of a corresponding primary key or surrogate key in the dimension table.

  5. Database schema - Wikipedia

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    In the context of Oracle Databases, a schema object is a logical data storage structure. [4] An Oracle database associates a separate schema with each database user. [5] A schema comprises a collection of schema objects. Examples of schema objects include: tables; views; sequences; synonyms; indexes; clusters; database links; snapshots ...

  6. Outline of MySQL - Wikipedia

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    MySQL Archive – this analytic storage engine can be used to create a table that is “archive” only. Data cannot be deleted from this table, only added. MySQL Cluster – technology providing shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for the MySQL database management system. It is designed to provide high availability and high throughput ...

  7. Outline of databases - Wikipedia

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    Datasource – name given to the connection set up to a database from a server. The name is commonly used when creating a query to the database. The Database Source Name (DSN) does not have to be the same as the filename for the database. For example, a database file named "friends.mdb" could be set up with a DSN of "school".

  8. Data dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The terms data dictionary and data repository indicate a more general software utility than a catalogue. A catalogue is closely coupled with the DBMS software. It provides the information stored in it to the user and the DBA, but it is mainly accessed by the various software modules of the DBMS itself, such as DDL and DML compilers, the query optimiser, the transaction processor, report ...

  9. Data definition language - Wikipedia

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    Common examples of DDL statements include CREATE, ALTER, and DROP. If you see a .ddl file, that means the file contains a statement to create a table. Oracle SQL Developer contains the ability to export from an ERD generated with Data Modeler to either a .sql file or a .ddl file.