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It’s a horrible wet day here today. Definitely not the best day to set out and choose a Christmas tree today. It’s slightly fraught, anyway, because I always insist on doing Christmas the German way. While in Ireland the Christmas trees are set up at the beginning of December, I follow the old tradition of only putting it up and decorating it on the morning of Christmas Eve. By the time we get…

You may have heard it already from Ali herself:

I’m pleased to say that @GuyltyPleasure has generously offered to take over the running of the website so it won’t disappear. We will transfer ownership next month. Thank you for your kind messages ❤️

— RichardArmitageNet (@RAnetdotcom) November 3, 2019

I am thoroughly delighted that Ali has agreed to entrust me with her ‘baby’. When she dropped…

OlAP analysis is a growing in popularity technology that allows business to analyze and evaluate all the data collected throughout its existence. Proper data analysis is essential for making decisions, choose right behavior, create accurate reports, finding what affects business the most.

OLAP analysis tool functionality

First OLAP analysis tool needs a data source which can be a relational table, a database or something else. The data collected from a data source then needs to be converted into a special data form - a multidimensional cube. Data stored in a cube is the most convenient for fast analysis and representation.

For data processing OLAP has special tools to work with in a cube. You can:

Pick values to create smaller cubes, which eases analysis;

Navigate through data and find both the detailed and the summarized ones;

Rotate cube to see all of it's dimensions;

Summarize data to compute it.

A pivot table is one of the most useful tools. It is must-have for large data analysis. Pivot tables are often used for fast data processing. It allows you to come to the best decisions. You can summarize, analyze and present data successfully using pivot tables.

So how to use pivot tables? You can create a pivot table making just a few clicks. To create a pivot table pick the data that you need to analyze. Creating a pivot table, you can study other sides of an issue and put data in a way to achieve your specific goals.

Pivot tables are very flexible. You can modify them easily according to information that you want to get.

Therefore, you can give a summary of a large dataset and draw a parallel between analyzed items using pivot tables.

http://olaptools.blogspot.com.by/2017/04/olap-pivot-table-pivot-table-is-tool-in.html