Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...

As I pointed out in my recent article, How the ETL Bottleneck Will Kill Your Business, companies must become ETL masters and learn to generate and operate a growing portfolio of ETL jobs if they are ...

The Olap Council's APB-1 benchmark is one of the best ways to assess a product's performance relative to other Olap tools (see "Using the Olap benchmark," Application Development Trends, Sept. 1997, p ...

I started using APL for data analysis around 1972. The powerful language, based on a 1962 book by Ken Iverson, A Programming Language, was and is notable for three things: its use of Greek letters and ...

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 ...

These grouped-format dimensions often contain one or more hierarchies of related data items used within the OLAP queries supported by the structures. In merging the elements within a business category ...