To facilitate the process, the Georgia Department of Education recently hired Steve Gabrielson as its data-mining and warehousing specialist.
Districts submit data to the state over the internet, with certain elements in specified fields.
This format may be different than the format originally used to store the data. Once the information reaches the warehouse, the querying begins. The bottom line is student achievement and lower dropout rates. The chief component of an OLAP system is the server, which sits between a client computer and a database management system. The OLAP server understands how data are organized in the database and has special functions for analyzing it.