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 ...

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 ...

) announced that they have joined forces to publish the XML for Analysis specification, allowing open access to multidimensional databases from any platform. The collaboration between two leading OLAP ...

Graph databases explicitly express the connections between nodes, and are more efficient at the analysis of networks (computer, human, geographic, or otherwise) than relational databases. There has ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...