Wow, who knew Essbase was such an easy to use and versatile tool when it came to loading data and maintaining your outline?
Let's see, we have covered the how and why of making your data Essbase-friendly. We have also learned what it means to make data Essbase-friendly and what you need to do to make it so.
As if that wasn't enough, you've also learned all about what are referred to as data sources for Essbase. You now know that a data source can be merely data values you load into your Essbase database, based on a predefined database outline and data attributes accompanying the data values.
You have learned about the various types of data sources, how Essbase deals with them, and what you need to do to filter, manipulate, or cleanse them before use.
After all of that, we took all what you've learned about data and data sources and applied it by creating your first data load rules in Oracle Essbase. You then used that load rule to load some honest to goodness real data into your Esscar...