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 ...
OLAP (online analytical processing) is a computing method that enables users to easily and selectively extract and query data in order to analyze it from different points of view. OLAP business ...
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 ...
The SAS/ACCESS interface to OLE DB provides a facility for accessing OLE DB for OLAP data. You can specify a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) statement through the SQL Procedure Pass-Through ...
Relational databases have been functional as life-lines for information workers for decades now. They deliver results no doubt, but it is also a fact that it is not easy (if not tough) to query and ...