Many mission-critical applications run on IBM host mainframe computers, relying on structured data stored in IBM DB2 and IMS databases. Yet, most knowledge workers utilize Web and Office-based productivity, analysis and reporting tools. Enterprise IT organizations struggle how to provide efficient access to the line-of-business data for key decision-makers. One effective approach is to build operational data stores in Microsoft SQL Servernbsp; 2005 . Yet, there are many considerations when designin...

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