There are three basic parallel processing hardware architectures in the server market such as symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), massively parallel processing (MPP), and non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA).Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)The SMP architecture is an individual device with multiple processors, all managed by one operating system and all accessing the similar disk and ... Read More

There are various categories for hardware and operating system platforms which are as follows −Mainframes − The data warehouse is probably the one application to which this does not apply. Especially, the mainframe is not the first-choice platform for data warehousing.There are some successful mainframe-based data warehouses, most of them ... Read More

There are the following requirements for the server platform are as follows −Volatility − Volatility computes the dynamic characteristics of the database. It includes areas like how often the database will be updated, how much data changes or is replaced each time, and how long the load window is. Daily ... Read More

There are various features of Query Formulation which are as follows −Multipass SQL − It can be used to evaluate comparisons or to correctly compute nonadditive measures in report break rows, the query tool should divide the report down into multiple queries that are processed independently by the DBMS.The query ... Read More

Standard reporting provides the ability to create production style fixed-format reports that have limited user interaction, a broad audience, and regular execution schedules. The application templates are essentially a casual kind of standard report.At the formal end of the spectrum, large standard reporting systems tend to surface when the ERP ... Read More

Query management services are the set of possibilities that handle the exchange between the query production, the implementation of the query on the database, and the return of the result set to the desktop. These services have a full impact on customer cooperation with the database.There are various services of ... Read More

There are various services of Job Control which are as follows −Job definition − The first step in creating an operations process is to have some way to define a series of steps as a job and to specify some relationship among jobs. This is where the structure of the ... Read More

In data transformation, the data are transformed or linked into forms applicable for mining. Data transformation can contains the following −Smoothing − It can work to remove noise from the data. Such techniques include binning, regression, and clustering.Aggregation − In aggregation, where summary or aggregation operations are applied to the ... Read More

There are various requirements of data staging which are as follows −Productivity support − Any system it is decide to implement needs to support basic development environment capabilities such as code library management check-in/check-out, version control, and production and development system constructs. Initially, and for smaller projects, these can be ... Read More

There are various criteria for selecting the data sources which are as follows −Data accessibility − If two possible feeds exist for the data, one is stored in binary files maintained by a set of programs written before the youngest project team member was born and the other is from ... Read More