Online analytical processing (OLAP) Question:
Explain about Encoding technique used in bitmaps indexes?
Answer:
Bitmaps commonly use one bitmap for every single distinct value. Number of bitmaps used can be reduced by opting for a different type of encoding. Space can be optimized but when a query is generated bitmaps have to be accessed.
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