Chapter 29. Programming Combo and List Boxes
Decision-support applications deliver information used by management to analyze business trends. Data warehousing, one of today's hottest database technology topics, is the back end for decision-support applications in large organizations. The source data for the tables that comprise a data warehouse is a condensed version (called a roll-up) of the content of production databases used by online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Creating roll-ups of production data for decision support, usually on a server not running OLTP databases, maximizes the performance of both activities.
Decision-support applications involve read-only access to data, so you aren't limited to datasheet or form/subform ...
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