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
OLAP Council White Paper
Introduction
The purpose of the paper that follows is to define On-Line
Analytical Processing (OLAP), who uses it and why, and to review
the key features required for OLAP software as referenced in the
OLAP Council benchmark specification.
What is OLAP and why is it so good? (According to MS)
Chris
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