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 ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec 2, 2013) - Simba Technologies Inc., the industry's source for standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity solutions, announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relational databases have been functional as life-lines for information workers for decades now. They deliver results no doubt, but it is also a fact that it is not easy (if not tough) to query and ...

) 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 ...

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 ...