Datasets and Multidimensional Expressions

OLE DB Programmer's Reference

After establishing a connection and getting an interface on the session object, the consumer has to specify a query. Execution of a query results in a dataset. All data in a multidimensional data store exists as value points in one or more n-dimensional cubes. The result of a user query encompasses one or more cubes and extracts a set of points from these cubes as another p-dimensional cube. The value of p is usually no more than 4 and is typically 2 or 3. The resulting p-dimensional cube is called a dataset. This is similar to a query in a relational database system where the query encompasses one or more tables and returns a result set that has the same structure as that of a table.

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Microsoft Ole Db 2.0 Programmer's Reference and Data Access SDK
Microsoft OLE DB 2.0 Programmers Reference and Data Access SDK (Microsoft Professional Editions)
ISBN: 0735605904
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1998
Pages: 1083

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