Business users can view centralized data and perform related calculations for analysis and reporting with ease. IT can take advantage of OLAP solutions so that data warehouses and other relational ...

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 ...

Unlike the name implies, the cube represents data across some measure of interest. Even if it is called a “cube”, it can have 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, or even higher dimensions. With an OLAP cube, ...

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 ...

When we try to extract information from a stack of data, we need tools to help us find what’s relevant and what’s important and to explore different scenarios. A report, whether printed on paper or ...