DB2 Data Warehouse Product Introduction

The DB2 database warehouse solves some difficult problems. The following describes the DB2 Data Warehouse products in detail. If you are interested in this, take a look.

DB2 is built for business intelligence. DB2 is not only the world's most scalable database, but also has a robust set of business intelligence features. DB2's free data warehouse center provides SQL-based extract, transform, and load ETL capabilities to move and convert data. The data warehouse center contains Windows and AIX proxies that can transmit data directly between the data source and target.

The data warehouse center is designed to handle basic data warehouse requirements in AIX and Windows environments. For all-around Data Warehouse projects, IBM provides DB2 Data Warehouse Manager, DB2 DWM ).

IBM DB2 DWM provides a distributed heterogeneous infrastructure for designing, building, maintaining, managing, and accessing a highly scalable and robust DB2 data warehouse. DB2 DWM significantly added the ETL feature of the data warehouse center, including a set of supported OS extensions including Solaris, Linux, and AS/400) and end user metadata management solutions, query tools, and proactive query management tools.

DB2 DWM supports a wide range of relational and non-relational data sources. You can use the most common relational databases such as any product in the DB2 series, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Microsoft SQL Server), flat files, non-relational data storage, and data from more than 40 other data sources fill your DB2 data warehouse. DB2 DWM has more than 100 built-in conversion programs that you can use to clean, refactor, associate, standardize, and aggregate data for data accuracy and availability.

DB2 DWM has added the following features for data warehouses to DB2:

• Enhanced Data Warehouse scalability
• Rapid deployment of data mart
• Enables DBA to perform comprehensive management and resource control
• End users can easily access data and metadata
• Enterprise development reports and submit these reports to unrestricted clients

DB2 DWM is actually a suite composed of four products:

• Data Warehouse Center)With enhanced and extended SQL conversion functions for ETL, more support for all operating system proxies supported by DB2, etc.
• Information Directory Center Information Catalog Center)Is the end user-level metadata resource library
• Query Patroller)Is a powerful active query manager.
• Query Management Utility (QMF), A query report generation tool for Windows

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