Misconception of data warehouse?

I used to think data warehouse to be a VLDB. I then started asking some DBA's/Developers. To my surprise, 4 out of 5 people whom I expected them to know what a data warehouse told me what I thought it was at the first place. So, what is data warehouse? How is it implemented ? Why use data warehouse ? The above are some of the questions that I would like to discuss. If you have further comments or are board of reading my posts please let me know and I will promise will stop ?

Kimball Group

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Data warehouse best practice

Nice article to start with on data warehouse best practice. The following three article is written by Shimant Das and it has three parts. Eventhough, I would like to add more stuff to this articles, i am going to give you only the three links.

Best Practice Part 1

Best Practice Part 2

Best Practice Part 3

Data warehouse

Testing post 1