Re: Some question about Oracle Express

Thanks.

Daniel A. Morgan

Ian Ledzion wrote:

> 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 Wed Mar 14 2001 - 07:37:52 CET