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Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By : Jose R Ruiz
Book Image

Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By: Jose R Ruiz

Overview of this book

Oracle Essbase is a Multi-Dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios. This practical cookbook shows you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further. Packed with over 90 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to use a relational data model to build and load an Essbase cube and how to create a data source, prepare the mini schema, and work with the data elements in Essbase Studio. The book then dives into topics such as building the BSO cube, building the ASO cube, using EAS for development, creating Calculation Scripts and using MaxL to automate processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating dimension build rules to add a base and attribute dimensions


In this recipe, we will set up a build rule to modify the outline of the Sample Basic database. This recipe will be using the Generation reference, but we will discuss several other build methods that we can use with the dimension build rule.

Getting ready

To get started, click on your Start menu and navigate to Programs | Oracle EPM System | Essbase | Essbase Administration Services | Start Administration Services Console. In the Log in menu, enter your Administration Server, Username, Password, and click on the Log in button.

How to do it...

  1. In EAS, drill down on EssbaseCluster-1 | Applications | Sample | Basic, right-click on Outline, and click on Edit.

  2. Right-click on the Outline: Basic node. In the Outline Editor, select the Add a child to the selected member button, enter Product, and press the Enter key. If you already built the Measures dimension in the preceding recipe select the Measures dimension instead of the Outline...