The well-designed online analytical processing (OLAP) solution is fundamental to organizations analysis capabilities. That is why, when designing the OLAP solution for your organization, you must ensure that the components of your OLAP solution, including relational data warehouse databases and multidimensional cubes, are designed to meet the business needs of your organization, and provide a solution to users that allows them to locate and analyze the information effectively.

Checkout the part-1 of my two part article series on Designing and Implementing Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Architecture here, you will learn OLAP database design, options for data warehouse schema design, and key considerations for designing relational data warehouse schema for OLAP applications.

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