In June, Cognos, Seagate Software, and OLAP@Work shipped updated OLAP client tools, so look for the OLAP Client Wars to heat up. (All three companies are based in Canada, and two former Cognos employees founded OLAP@Work.) I don't mean to suggest...
At the fall 1998 Comdex, Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server 7.0 and a new certification for database administrators. The Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) certification was the first new certification Microsoft had...
In the FoodMart Sales cube, you want to list the Unit Sales values for California in all quarters for 1997 and 1998. That query is simple enough, but if one of the cell values in the result is empty, how do you get the result to display n/a? We'll...
GUI improvements will make the next version of English Query in SQL Server 7.0 easier for developers to use. Natural-language products are notorious for requiring a lot of up-front work to populate application-specific dictionaries. But developers...