Since the building of data warehouses began, the perceived wisdom has been to maintain a separation between the data warehouse and the company's operational systems. Today, while this 'separatist' thinking still dominates among many data warehousing professionals, the approach is being questioned. Evolving wisdom is to consider alternatives to the implementation of a traditional warehouse solution, where operational systems are capable of living in harmony with the data warehouse.

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