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 ...

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 ...

A multi-dimensional analytical query, or MDA query, is answered as quickly as possible by online analytical processing, or OLAP (/o*l*p/). Business intelligence also includes relational databases, ...

Microsoft Corp. and data analysis software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. yesterday announced plans for a joint XML-based technical specification aimed at providing a common way for users to connect ...

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 ...