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Role of warehouse manager

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The warehouse manager transforms staged data into detail tables with integrity checks and indexes, generates summary aggregations based on query profiles, maintains metadata repository with definitions and lineage, and creates/populates departmental data marts with scheduled refreshes and access control.

Explain the role of Warehouse manager with respect to detail information, summary information, Meta data and data mart management.

The warehouse manager is the system component that performs all operations related to the management of data in the warehouse. It is built using a mix of vendor tools, scripts and stored procedures.

 Staging area -> [ WAREHOUSE MANAGER ] -> Detail | Summary
                         |                 Meta data | Marts
                       Backup / Archive

1. Detailed information

  • Transforms and merges source data from the temporary store into detail tables.
  • Checks consistency and referential integrity.
  • Creates indexes and views on base tables for fast access.
  • Archives old detailed data and takes backups.

2. Summary information

  • Generates denormalisations and aggregations (daily, monthly, by region) as summary tables.
  • Uses query profiles from the query manager to decide which summaries to build.
  • Refreshes the summaries when new detail is loaded and removes unused ones.

3. Metadata management

  • Updates metadata after every load: sources, transformations, load time, data lineage.
  • Stores definitions of tables, columns, indexes and aggregates.
  • Keeps metadata consistent with the data so tools and users can rely on it.

4. Data mart management

  • Creates and populates data marts from the warehouse (or from the load area) for departments.
  • Maintains their schema and refreshes them on schedule.
  • Controls access and security of each mart, and its archiving.

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