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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

Using allocation functions in calculation scripts


In this recipe, we will use the @MDALLOCATE function to allocate data from upper-level members of our Product and Market dimension to the lower-levels across both dimensions. We will then go over the @MDALLOCATE functions parameters as used in our recipe. In this recipe, we will be using the Sample.Basic database as @MDALLOCATE is a BSO command.

Getting ready

To get started, click on the Start menu and navigate to Program | 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. Drill down on the Essbase Server in EAS, expand the Applications node, drill down on the Sample application and Basic database, right-click on the Outline, and select Edit from the drop-down.

  2. Drill down on the Scenario dimension, right-click member Actual, click on Add Sibling from the drop-down menu,...