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How the data access can be faster using OLAP ?

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You need to do some research on what OLAP is and why/when you need to use it. Try starting by searching Google for OLAP, and read this wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing

ca8msm
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OLAP makes data access very quick by using of multidimensional data model. If you have huge amount of data and report generation is extremely long (e.g. several hours) you could use OLAP to prepare the report. Then each request to already processed data would be fast.

Andrew Bezzub