DB2 Connect Quick Beginnings for Linux**

Managing Warehouses using the Data Warehouse Center

DB2 Universal Database offers the Data Warehouse Center, a component that automates data warehouse processing. You can use the Data Warehouse Center to define the data to include in the warehouse. Then, you can use the Data Warehouse Center to schedule automatic refreshes of the data in the warehouse.

From the Data Warehouse Center, you can manage specific warehousing objects, including subject areas, warehouse sources, warehouse targets, agents, agent sites, steps, and processes.

You can also perform the following tasks from the Data Warehouse Center:

• Define a subject area. You use a subject area to logically group the processes that are related to a particular topic or function.
• Explore the source data and define warehouse sources.
• Create database tables and define warehouse targets.
• Define a process that specifies how to move and transform the source data into the appropriate format for the warehouse.
• Test and schedule steps.
• Define security and monitor database currency.
• Define a star schema model.