What is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart?

Answer Posted / jaya

datamart is something which consists of only one type of
data whereas datwarehouse consists of data of different
type.For example all the organisation data say data related
to finance department,HR,Banking dept are stored in
datawarehouse whereas in datamart say only finance data
will stored.So datawarehouse is a collection of different
datamarts.

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