On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:39:24AM +0200, John Anderson allegedly wrote:
> AFAIK, OLAP backends essentially provide a cache of denormalised data
> that provide fast access (no need to re-run complex queries) to large
> data sets, and a set of aggregate functions to analyse the data.
>
> There's a
Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Seems like a fairly large amount of talk about stuff which should be
taken
> care of internally by corporations who have such interests.
Not entirely. As a freelancer, I've used OLAP (front-end only, ie pivot
tables in Excel) to help me produce invoices from my timesheet
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mark Pritchard wrote:
> > The longer that Oracle, MS, et al don't believe we're a threat, the
> > better. But I wonder how they *really* see us. This article was
> > too obviously a pile of marketing BS to be taken seriously by
> > anyone.
>
> Not necessarily - business gu
> Hopefully, RedHat's involvement will boost the mindshare and image of
> PostgreSQL and I don't have to keep doing Oracle admin :)
We had four articles in one day today. That shows some major momentum.
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> The longer that Oracle, MS, et al don't believe we're a threat, the
> better. But I wonder how they *really* see us. This article was
> too obviously a pile of marketing BS to be taken seriously by
> anyone.
Not necessarily - business guys are incredibly naive when it comes to
technology opti
Tim Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Near the end he gets specifically asked about "Red Hat Database" as a
> competitive threat, and he responds that he doesn't think anyone can match
> their "investment" of "800 professionals" to work on SQL Server.
ROTFL ...
The longer that Oracle, MS, et a
I'm sure that "800 professionals" equates to something like 4
developers, 1 tester (part-time), 2 documentation specialist, and 792
marketing, sales, administration, legal staff and others required to
justify its cost, and 1 CEO who has his fingers into everything at MS.
Tim Allen wrote:
>Th
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> >
> > The Register has an interesting interview with the vp
What is OLAP and why is it so good? (According to MS)
Chris
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The Register has an interesting interview with the vp of Microsoft's SQL
Server team:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html
Near the end he gets specifically asked about "Red Hat Database" as a
competitive threat, and he responds that he doesn't think anyone can match
their "invest
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