Hybrid Analysis and SQL Interface are tools you can use to integrate relational databases and OLAP databases, thereby leveraging the scalability of the relational database with the conceptual power of the multidimensional database. This chapter describes the tasks required to configure the computer on which you run DB2 OLAP Server to enable SQL Interface and Hybrid Analysis.
Although SQL Interface and Hybrid Analysis are two separate products with different functionality, many of the tasks required to configure the computer on which they are used are the same. Those tasks are covered in this chapter, as well as some separate tasks that are required for each product. Additionally, this chapter includes a Feature Map, which is a table that summarizes all the tasks associated with Hybrid Analysis.
This chapter contains the following topics: