Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed Chapter 1: Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence Excerpt from ...

Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of standards-based data access products, solutions and services for both relational and multi-dimensional data sources, has announced that Oracle's Technology ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

If you work with data analysis, you might have encountered OLAP cubes, which are multidimensional databases that allow you to perform fast and complex queries on large amounts of data. But how can you ...

Last night someone asked me if Snowflake has OLAP cube feature. I explained that the era of OLAP cube is well and truly passed. Today for OLAP we use cloud columnar database, not OLAP cubes. To me ...

OLAP extensions to Microsoft's flagship database software that enable users to perform "what if" analyses on their data. Formerly code-named Plato, OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL ...

Abstract: Querying data managed by database systems has been one of the most challenging tasks for database users. To bridge this gap, numerous interfaces have been developed with very different ...