SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the ...

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 ...

I built this project to explore OLTP/OLAP systems and dimensional modeling concepts by applying them to a practical use case. Instead of just reading about OLTP/OLAP and dimensional modeling, I ...

There was a time when analytics was synonymous with BI, and BI was synonymous with OLAP -- Online Analytical Processing. The term was meant to contrast with the more common Online Transaction ...

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, with its Unified Dimensional Model, has turbo-charged its OLAP capabilities. These new OLAP solutions can be useful to your business because they're more powerful ...