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 ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

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 ...

Why Do We Need Olap Cube? For OLAP cubes to be truly effective, they must be able to deal with millions of records at the same time. OLAP cube queries can be done with plain English, in fact. Data ...

I have a .NET application (in C#) that does some stuff and in particular loads data into a SQL Server 2005 database (into tables).<BR><BR>I'd like to automate the building of an OLAP cube based on ...

REDMOND, Wash., March 9, 2001 — In the two years since Microsoft Corp. made its debut in the online analytical processing (OLAP) space, Microsoft® SQL Server™ has overtaken competitors to become the ...

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 ...