Re: Some question about Oracle Express

From: Ian Ledzion <ian.ledzion_at_xlgbow.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:03:14 +0100
Message-ID: <98l29n$c0o$1_at_rex.ip-plus.net>


[Quoted] Just been to a presentation by Oracle on Data Warehousing, etc. Oracle Express is going to be phased out in time, and replaced by their Oracle Business Intelligence suite. For OLAP you're best off using Discover for the moment.

"Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3AADC22D.8BDFB526_at_exesolutions.com...
> > I'm evaluating some OLAP tools, and I have some questions about Oracle
> > Express.
> >
> > 1) How does Oracle Express support multi dimensional queries? Does
 Oracle
> > Express support the MDX de facto standard, like you find in SQL Server?
> >
> > 2) What about OLE DB support?
> >
> > 3) What is the strength of Oracle Express against SQL Server Analysis
> > server?
>
> Can't speak to whether Oracle Express supports MDX as it has been more
 than
> four years since I worked with the product. But I deeply resent, just on
> appearances alone, the implication that because Microsoft does something
 it
> is the standard. In the world of OLAP tools Microsoft is the late-comer
 and
> the only thing industrial strength about it is the marketing hyperbole.
>
> The main strength of Oracle Express against anything sold by Microsoft is
> that you can actually host it on a platform scalable enough to use the
> product with a database of any reasonable size.
>
> OLAP tools are very time consuming to load and require massive amounts of
> disk space. Win2000 just doesn't have the horsepower unless the database
 you
> are working on is a small one.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
>
Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 13:03:14 CET

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