ITMD 526 - Week 2 -Blog
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Introduction Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is computer processing that empowers a client to effortlessly and specifically extricate and see information from various perspectives. The OLAP term originates from customary data warehousing from times when "big data" would fit into your present portable workstation and it was tedious to prepare even that little sum contrasted with today's principles. OLAP permits clients to dissect database data from numerous database frameworks at one time. OLAP data is stored in multidimensional databases. OLAP composes actualities into measurements which are ways that the truths can be separated. For example, total sales may have the capacity to be separated by geology. So also, total sales may likewise be separated by time. Measurements are additionally progressive systems of levels. For example, a geography measurement may contain the levels of nation, state, and area. Also, a period mea...