Thank you, but you might want to be careful siding with me. I seem to have offended some folks; I wouldn't want to get you caught up in it.

I am not name calling, I am stating a fact! He has no clue what he is talking about, but he persists in talking about it. My argument...

Well, Glen, I find you quite irritating. It is impossible to "show" something to someone who 1. isn't interested in "seeing" it, and 2. is afraid and misinformed about...

I agree with Paul8, and again you are a good example of taking an obviously well informed database person, like yourself, and getting them to "see" the difference between "traditional"...

Inmon is also a good source for the OP to learn data warehousing, but I still prefer Kimball. I grew up on IBM mainframes, migrated to UNIX (Berkeley), and...

Well, I am not upset. I am sitting here laughing at you folks. You all have gone way over the edge. The definition in my last post...

And the reason for your sarcasim is?

I am certainly not disappointed. You have just proven my point for me, most beautifully. That is, there are many definition, depending on who you ask!!! BUT,...

I was just trying to say there is more to a DW than a "big report" or a bunch of data! Just the way the original question was presented...

You do not have a data warehouse, and what they are asking for (a big report) does NOT justify you creating a data warehouse (DW).

So what is a...