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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

Analytic server configuration file


This is the big one! The essbase.cfg file is where most of your advanced techniques will come into play. The essbase.cfg file is an ASCII text file and can be edited using any standard text editing tool. Found on the Essbase analytic server in the essbase\bin folder, the heart and soul of your performance tuning will be in there. In fact, many of the performance tuning settings the you will set through the EAS will have a counterpart setting in the essbase.cfg file.

Note

A word to the wise:

Always make a backup copy of the essbase.cfg file before you make any changes to it. The essbase.cfg file is a critical system file used by the Essabse analytic server, and there are entries in there that affect whether the service will start or not. Just in case.

First of all, there are literally dozens of optional statements that can be used in the essbase.cfg file as shown in the screenshot below. However, do not be alarmed, if you do not have each of the available...