yahoo-analytics

Tracking iPhone on Yahoo Web Analytics using ASIHTTPRequest

I'm trying to track an event in my app using Yahoo Web Analytics. The code I am using looks like ASIHTTPRequest *yahooTrack = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://s.analytics.yahoo.com/p.pl?a=xxxxxxxxxxxxx&js=no&b=yyyyyyyyyyyy&cf6=zzzzzzzzzzz"]]; yahooTrack.didFinishSelector = @selector(statistic...

Why do Web Analytics such as Google Analytics use Dimensions and Metrics instead of SQL statement?

Just when I get quite familiar with SQL statements once again, when pulling data from Google Analytics, I found that they don't use SQL, but rather, use Dimensions and Metrics and the combinations of them. Why is a reason for that? I think it doesn't have a SQL interface (or a plain web server log download)? If so, how do SQL statemen...