Saturday, August 29, 2009

Strengths of OLAP / Typical OLAP Query

Strengths of OLAP

• It is a powerful visualization paradigm.
• It provides fast, interactive response times.
• It is good for analyzing time series.
• It can be useful to find some clusters and outliners.

Typical OLAP Query

• Write a multi-table join to compare Budget for each Org YTD this year vs. last year.
• Repeat the above process to find the top 5 Donors to Funds
• Repeat the above process to find the Funds of a Org to new vs. existing Donor.

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