Re: My last message..databases

[Roy Cottingham <ke9vo@ntslink.net>]

Would this be the same as Flat .vs. Relational ???

Don't know anything abt Orcale, Inform-X, etc. If they are SQL based or not,
but, you can check out FlagShip.

It is a compiler that converts Clipper/dBase/xBase type code to c.
(actually I think it just converts it, and you use gcc to compile..??)

There is a demo/trial version for Linux and it is usually included on many of
the RedHat releases.

Now, you have to know an x-base type language, but, for me that would be the
way to go.

Good luck......

  On Fri, 21 May 1999, you wrote: > > I'm sorry for spamming
everyone with my last message. > 
> Guess we know who got the contract!  :)
> 
> Can someone explain to me some ways in which a multidimensional database
> differs from a standard SQL one? Is it simply that SQL can only handle a
> few variables at once, while OLAP can do several things (people born in
> August -vs- people under the age of 6 with red hair who were born at St.
> John's in August)?
> 
> Is there anything for Linux that uses OLAP at this time?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay Link
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