WEEK 4 INDIVIDUAL PAPER
OLAP, DATA MARTS AND WAREHOUSES,
THREE-TIER ARCHITECTURE AND ASP
DBM405
OLAP, Data Marts and Warehouses, Three-Tier Architecture and ASP
OLAP
The term OLAP stands for ‘On-Line Analytical Processing’. OLAP is a technology used to process data a high performance level for analysis and shared in a multidimensional cube of information. The key thing that all OLAP products have in common is multidimensionality, but that is not the only requirement for an OLAP product.
An OLAP application is targeted to deliver most responses to users within about five seconds, with the simplest analyses taking no more than one second and very few taking more than 20 seconds. Impatient users often assume that a process has failed if results are not received with 30 seconds, and they are apt to implement the ‘3 finger salute’ or ‘Alt+Ctrl+Delete’ unless the system warns them that the report will take longer. Even if they have been......
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