Understanding the Data Warehouse Architecture

This post details the architecture of the Team Foundation data warehouse, explaining its components: operational stores (for daily operations), warehouse adapters (for data extraction, transformation, and loading), the warehouse relational database (organized in a star schema with fact and dimension tables), and the warehouse OLAP cube (for trend analysis and aggregated reporting). It also outlines report design using Report Designer and Excel, and discusses security at the database and team project levels.