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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

This is how the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube was born, which you might call one of the grooviest BI inventions developed in the 70s. OLAP cube is designed as a solution to pre-compute totals and subtotals when the database server is idle. The OLAP cube makes reading data across multiple dimensions manageable.

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Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT

AWS Big Data

To download and install AWS SCT on the EC2 instance that you created, refer to Installing, verifying, and updating AWS SCT. Download the Redshift JDBC driver. Download and install Amazon Corretto 11. For Connection name , enter a name (for example, olap-azure-synapse ). Deselect Create final snapshot. Choose Next.

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. We begin with a single-table design as an initial state and build a scalable batch extract, load, and transform (ELT) pipeline to restructure the data into a dimensional model for OLAP workloads.