<B>Background: (Feel free to skip)</B><BR>I'm starting a project here at work to explore using OLAP techniques to start working more intelligently with our data.<BR><BR>Towards this end I got familiar ...

Reporting tools have grown to become more comprehensive and visually informative than what they used to be. The way these reports are created has also seen a lot of changes over the years. There are ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

The popularity of Microsoft Excel has never waned. Today, a whopping 1.1 billion users globally rely on it for multidimensional analysis in areas such as "scenario planning, supply chain optimization, ...