Microsoft entered the OLAP market in early 1999 with the release of SQL Server 7.0, which rocked the market for on-line analytic processing, also known as multi-dimensional databases.

In 2000, Microsoft released what was effectively a version 2.0 of its OLAP server with SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, which also bundled data mining capabilities at no cost.

March 9, 2001 — In the two years since Microsoft Corp. made its debut in the online analytical processing (OLAP) space, Microsoft® SQL Server™ has overtaken competitors to become the third-largest ...

Microsoft first integrated OLAP into the SQL Server (TM) relational database in 1998. “Microsoft’s SQL Server Analysis Services grew faster than the market and therefore increased its market share ...

Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed Chapter 1: Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence Excerpt ...

The OLAP Report shows OLAP leaders such as Hyperion ... Microsoft also offers an even more compact Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, or MSDE, for embedding in smaller devices.

Understand the business imperative for OLAP as well as its implementation. About the Author Andrew Brust is Research Director for Big Data and Analytics at Gigaom Research. Andrew is co-author of ...

OLAP databases solve these issues by providing ... and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase.

SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the ...