Mondrian supports a large number of back-end databases. So many
in fact, that we rely on contributors to add the support, and we
have tried to standardize the steps to support a new
database.
I thought it might be worthwhile to reiterate those steps. The
steps are:
1. Write a dialect class. The dialect must implement the Dialect interface, and will probably be a subclass
of JdbcDialectImpl. The only prerequisites are
that your database has a JDBC driver and supports SQL-92: SELECT
.. FROM .. JOIN .. GROUP BY. Mondrian will glean as much
information as it can, such as how your database quotes
identifiers that contain mixed-case or spaces, from the JDBC
driver. But you will need to override methods to provide
information that the …
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