This document discusses data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP). It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data used for analysis and decision making. The key aspects of a data warehouse covered are its multidimensional data model using cubes and dimensions, extraction of data from multiple sources, and usage for querying, reporting, analytical processing, and data mining. Common data warehouse architectures and operations like star schemas, snowflake schemas, and OLAP functions such as roll-up and drill-down are also summarized.