) announced that they have joined forces to publish the XML for Analysis specification, allowing open access to multidimensional databases from any platform. The collaboration between two leading OLAP ...

While designing large databases, one of the most commonly done things to incorporate future additions to the data fields is, adding a number of generic fields that can later be used as additional data ...

Microsoft this week released a preview of a new software development kit for use with the Open XML standards native to Office 2007. The company said the SDK is meant to streamline development chores ...