RE: MS interview

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.

http://www.olapcouncil.org/research/whtpapco.htm

And

Data Warehousing and OLAP

A Research-Oriented Bibliography (in progress)

Alberto Mendelzon
University of Toronto

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mendel/dwbib.html

Seems like a fairly large amount of talk about stuff which should be taken
care of internally by corporations who have such interests.

Gavin

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> What is OLAP and why is it so good? (According to MS)
>
> Chris
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> >
> > The Register has an interesting interview with the vp of Microsoft's SQL
> > Server team:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Now I'm sure he didn't mean it to sound this way, but what I conclude from
> > that is that you fellows are all an order of magnitude or two more
> > productive than anyone at Microsoft :-).
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