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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

Overview of this book

The hot new data analysis trends involve business intelligence and analytics. The technology that supports business intelligence and analytics better than anything else is today's multidimensional OLAP technology ñ and there is none better than Oracle Essbase! Although storing data in a cube and developing analytical applications leaves many people grasping for understanding, especially if their experience is with relational databases, embracing OLAP technology will pay big dividends in the long run. It's easy to develop multidimensional analytic OLAP solutions when you have got this Oracle Essbase book to hand. It is a step-by-step guide to timeless Essbase fundamentals, which takes you from a basic software installation through to launching a fully functioning Essbase database cube. This book will guide you through every stage of installing Oracle's Essbase software on your analytic server, the Essbase Administration Services client, and the client software itself. You will learn, in easy-to-understand language, the concepts of multidimensional database technology as you are taken step by step through building an actual Essbase application complete with database, database calculation scripts, and database report scripts. Once you have your system built and functional, the next course of instruction covers the available automation features included in your Essbase software package and how to use them. These chapters alone are worth the price of admission! As an IT professional you quite rightly have a desire to understand multidimensional OLAP ñ this book gives you that understanding. Should you wish to embark on an exciting career as an Essbase developer/administrator, this book provides a fantastic foundation from which to grow. Best of all, this book is filled with the tips and tricks that you can only get from many years and countless hours spent playing with Essbase. You get them all in just the time it takes you to complete this book.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgements
Preface

Build your first data rules file


Before we start building a data rules file, let us talk about the purpose of the Essbase data rules file.

The Essbase data rules file is one of the smartest features available to you as an Essbase database programmer! Whether you are using data with a rules file to dynamically add members to your outline (dimension build setting), or loading data into the database (data load setting), the Essbase data rules file can prove to be an invaluable tool.

Data rule files can be used to maintain your Essbase database outline or load data into your Essbase database. In this section, we will talk about using the data rules file to update the Essbase dimensions. In the next chapter, we will talk about how to use the data rules file to load data into your database or cube.

You can run your data load or dimension build data rules file with accompanying data manually from the EAS tool or you can run it by executing an Essbase Command or Essbase MaxL script.

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