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by Sesse__ 1226 days ago
Very, very roughly: OLTP is for dealing with one row at a time (TP = transaction processing; think “handling a sale”). OLAP is for combining many rows and extracting useful information from them (AP = analytics processing; think “figure out how many sales we had of each type of unit last month”). So for OLAP, you get more emphasis on features like joins, grouping and other analysis.