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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
William Earl Malloy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gary Robinson, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig Reginald Tomlyn, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for using a relational database management system to support on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. A relational database has a fact table and at least one related dimension table. A dimension identifier is received that identifies a data block in a multi-dimensional database. The dimension identifier comprises one or more multi-dimensional member identifiers. Rows are accessed from the fact table through the related dimension tables using the received dimension identifier. Then, the accessed rows are formatted as a data block for the multi-dimensional database.