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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

Data load methods


We have discussed the types of data you can load into your Essbase database. We have also discussed how these types of data can be loaded as just the data values themselves, or that they can be used to build your Essbase database outline by dynamically adding dimension members and then loading the data values. Here, we will discuss some of the various methods you can use to load data into your Essbase database.

Data file freeform (no load rule)

This method is quite possibly the most worry free and easy way to load data into an Essbase database. When you have a properly formatted (Essbase-friendly) data file, all you need to do is drag-and-drop the file onto the EssCmd/MaxL executable files or their desktop shortcuts. Essbase will automatically determine what delimiter you are using and correctly load the data.

Here are just a few words of caution on using this data load method. The reason it is so easy at the load step is because the harder work has already been done at the...