OLAP-related documentation

• The OLAP Council
• OLAP Glossary from the OLAP Counci (Word 6, ASCII)
• Proposed additions to the OLAP Council's Glossary (Steve Elkins)
• FASMI definition of OLAP (Nigel Pendse)
• Analytic Edge: The journal of analytical application development
• TPC Benchmark Descriptions (TPC-R covers Business Reporting for Decision Support; TPC-H covers Ad-Hoc Query for Decision Support)
• DM Review's OLAP Resource Portal
• Datamation magazine's IS Manager's Workbench for OLAP
• Microsoft OLE DB OLAP API specification
• The OLAP Council's MDAPI 2.0 specification
• The OLAP Report (Business Intelligence Ltd.)
• DBMS magazine's Buyer's Guide
• Data Warehousing and OLAP: A Research-Oriented Bibliography
• Data Mining white papers (Kurt Thearling)
• Computerworld QuickStudy OLAP Resources (11/30/1998)
• "Modeling a Data Warehouse" (Neil Raden)
• "Star Schema 101" (Neil Raden)
• "Efficient Organization of Large Multidimensional Arrays" (Michael Stonebraker)

OLAP-related resources

• Usenet comp.databases.olap newsgroup
• Comp.databases.olap newsgroup charter
• International Oracle Users Group, Express SIG

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