Re: On the subject of Data Warehouses, Data Cubes & OLAP....

On 14 Oct 2003 08:00:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will)
wrote:

>Has it dawned on anyone else
>that these buzz words were created by some geek who decided to take a
>stab at marketing?  

Lots of us.  Software is not like a technology industry; it's like a
fashion industry.

>       I mean seriously, what is the story here?  In a nut shell, and please
>stop me if you disagree, but isn’t a data warehouse simply a
>database?  

More like a report than a database.

>Can’t you do everything on a conventional database
>like SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 that you can do on these new
>proprietary Data Warehouse constructs?  

Yes and no.  You can drive screws with a hammer, but it's not always
the best approach.

-- 
Mike Sherrill
Information Management Systems