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In the previous chapter, I discussed reporting, which is one of the most popular ways of getting the data out of the data warehouse and presenting it to the users. In this chapter, I will discuss another popular way of getting the data out—using multidimensional databases (MDBs). Multidimensional databases are mainly used for analytics and data mining applications. While you are learning in this chapter what multidimensional databases are, what they are for, how to design them, how to populate them, and how to query them, you need to remember that the final purpose of data warehousing is to get the data to the users, not to get the data into the warehouse.
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(2008). Multidimensional Database. In: Building a Data Warehouse. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0528-9_12
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