OLAP system should not impose any artifi cial restrictions on the number of dimensions or
aggregation levels.
In addition to these 12 rules, a robust production-quality OLAP system should also support com-
prehensive database management tools, the ability to drill down to detail level, incremental
database refresh and SQL interface.
15.5.1 OLAP Tools
OLAP tools are based on the concepts of multi-dimensional databases and allow a sophisticated
user to analyse the data using elaborate, multi-dimensional, complex views. There are three main
categories of OLAP tools, known as multi-dimensional OLAP (MOLAP or MD-OLAP ...
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