There is no good canonical reference. OLAP for RDBMS is different than OLAP as originally defined and as provided in specialized tech stacks for purposes of planning apps, business modeling and so on. Absent a good canonical reference for what OLAP actually is, hard to have a good one for the RDBMS flavor.
The Data Warehousing Toolkit by Ralph Kimball is the classic for dimensional design in that vein.
I’ve been working in OLAP since 5 years before the term was coined, happy to discuss further.
The Data Warehousing Toolkit by Ralph Kimball is the classic for dimensional design in that vein.
I’ve been working in OLAP since 5 years before the term was coined, happy to discuss further.