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Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By : Jose R Ruiz
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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

Introduction


In this chapter, we will first build the folder structure to maintain MaxL scripts, error files, and logs. This folder structure is the foundation of your automation and is required before completing most of the other recipes in this chapter. The first recipe will also show the reader how to maintain a username and password in one administrative batch file and pass this information as parameters to their MaxL scripts. This technique will reduce the overhead of having to change the login information required when moving processes from development to production. We will also review how to automate the running of calculations, dimension build rules, load rules, partitioning data, executing report scripts, and changing substitution variables. Moreover, we will go over how to add data to an ASO model incrementally by adding slices. Finally, we will discuss the process of encrypting a MaxL script and deploying dimensions built in Essbase Studio using MaxL.