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 also a language called MDX that goes with it, but I haven't
> worked with that.
MDX is the query language used for querying cubes of data in an multi
dimensional database. MDX is usually automatically generated, as it is
far more complex than SQL.
Cheers,
Mathijs
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