Explain a multidimensional database, its applications, and its main advantage.

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Student responses will vary, but should be drawn from the following information from the text.?A multidimensional database stores data in dimensions. Whereas a relational database is a two-dimensional table, a multidimensional database can store more than two dimensions of data. These multiple dimensions allow users to access and analyze any view of the database data.??One application that uses multidimensional databases is a data warehouse. A data warehouse is a huge database that stores and manages the data required to analyze historical and current transactions. The database in a data warehouse often is distributed. The data in a distributed database exists in many separate locations throughout a network or the Internet. Although the data is accessible through a single server, the physical location of the server on which it is stored is transparent and often unknown, to the user.?

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