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Taser Your Data Warehouse

December 21, 2009 by Steve Bennett
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Earlier this week I was having yet-another-end-of-year-lunch1, this time with a bunch of friends who are all data warehouse developers. Now we could have spent the time enjoying the food and wine and talking about what we are all going to do over the holidays. I say could because of course we didn't. Instead, we talked about when... [read more]

OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)

November 27, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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The term OLAP or Online Analytic Processing was coined in 1993 by relational database technology pioneer Ted Codd (my claim to fame: we went to the same high school, Poole Grammar). The term was chosen to contrast with OLTP or online transaction processing, and was prompted by some clever marketing folks at Essbase, who wanted to... [read more]