On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:06:14PM -0500, Selector, Lev Y wrote: > Hello, > > I searched for OLAP on perl.com and CPAN (and "perl olap" on Google) - got > no entries. > Also there is nothing on data warehousing in the perl world. > > Am I missing something?
No, but I think we are. What's OLAP? > I thought Perl is supposed to be a "Practical Extraction and Reporting > Language" "Practical" is often shorthand for "if there's sufficient call for it, somebody will write a module to do it, even if that somebody is you" :) > Some vendors have designed their own programming languages for this purpose. > For example, Microsoft Analysis Services (part of MS SQL server) is taking > the market recently. They have an elegant language (MDX) for > multi-dimensional queries - similar to SQL, but designed to handle > multidimensional objects - If you're looking for easy ways to store complex objects consider Tangram, Alzabo, Class::DBI... The Perl Object Oriented Persistence group might prove helpful. http://poop.sourceforge.net/ > see the book "Microsoft Olap Solutions" (actually Microsoft bought a > bunch of Israeli Jews with their development on that). OLAP: Now with 50% more chutzpah! :) > I thought it would be nice to be able to do OLAP (multi-dimensional and > hierarchical reporting) in Perl. > Do you know of any development in this direction? -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Instant Cross-Platform CGI Programming in Visual Perl 5 with Object Oriented Design in 7 Days Unleashed for Dummies Special Edition with Exclusive Java Chapters for Developers. Year 2000 compliant, Enterprise edition and ISO9000- certified. A Nutshell Handbook Designed For Windows 95/98/NT with a forward by Larry "Bud" Melman. Interactive Multimedia CDROM included. 3rd revised editon, covers Perl5.6. Of course, it will be refered to by its simple acronym: ICPCGIPiVP5wOODi7DU4DSEwEJC4DY2KCEedISO9000-cNHD4W9598NTLBMIMCDROM3edP5.6
