The purpose of this blog posting is to discuss strategies for handling decision support queries in Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications. First, I want to talk about the two classes of OLTP applications that I see in the marketplace.
The first is the traditional OLTP market that has been present for years, and is typified by purchasing Wall Street stocks. A collection of humans (stock brokers or end-users over the web) interact with an OLTP system to trade securities. The brokerage house (and end users for that matter) also want to run decision support queries to learn about historical trends … Read more
