Is the data warehouse necessary/pre-requisite for datamining? Does the data warehouse support data mining, if so, in whatways? Solution No, you don\'t need a data warehouse to domining. You can do your data mining against the productiondatabase, but it will slow down production order processing. That\'s the entire reason that data warehouses are created -- toprevent slowing down the production server with reportingqueries. Also: The data warehouse is typically laid out differently to makethe reporting queries much faster..