Thank you very much Thomas, I shall read that article right now.

Greetings.

Walter.

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Thomas Steinmaurer <ts@...>wrote:

> **
>
>
> > Ok, thanks, it is more clear now.
> >
> > Where I can find more information about OLAP and OLTP, some link you can
> > recommend me?
>
> You might get an idea what OLAP means and the article is related to
> Firebird as well. ;-)
>
>
> http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/misc/articles/2008_05_Aggregate_Tables_With_Firebird.pdf
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Walter.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Mark Rotteveel <mark@...
> >wrote:
> >
> >> **
>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:37:19 -0400, W O
> >> <sistemas2000profesional@...>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello everybody:
> >>>
> >>> After reading in this article:
> >>> http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq3/
> >>>
> >>> "Alternatively, you can add a second server to do long running reports
> >>> (OLAP) and keep Super Server for fast transactions (OLTP)."
> >>>
> >>> it seems possible and desirable to have 2 Servers, one for long running
> >>> reports (probably using Classic) and another for the other tasks (using
> >>> SuperServer)
> >>>
> >>> Is that right?
> >>>
> >>> There are not risks of corrupting the database doing so?
> >>
> >> I don't think they are talking about using two servers on the same
> >> database. My guess is it is talking about a two (or more) database
> setup:
> >> One is the OLTP database and the other its the OLAP / data warehouse
> >> database. The OLTP is used for the actual 'business' side of things, the
> >> OLAP for generating reports. The OLAP database is reloaded (or
> >> synchronized) regularly from the OLTP database, but might be slightly
> out
> >> of date.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
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