Database Building
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A 'build' of a mine is a complete data loading run starting from an empty database. It is recommended that you use the :doc:`/database/database-building/build-script`. The build script runs the data integration and any post-processing steps.

Each mine has an integrate project that reads the project.xml file and builds the data warehouse. This steps through each `source` defined in the project.xml file and transates the specified data from a source format and loads it into the production database. Data integration is governed by primary keys, any conflicts are resolved by a priorities config file.

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 4
    
    build-script
    project-xml
    data-integration
    model-merging
    primary-keys
    priority-config
    post-processing/index
    post-build-updating-with-sql-triggers
    debugging

.. index:: database building