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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

Chapter 1. Understanding and Modifying Data Sources

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up an Account or Measures dimension with a parent-child reference

  • Setting up dimensions with a generation reference

  • Adding columns for outline formulas

  • Adding the Solve Order column to tables that have ASO formulas

  • Adding and populating the Sort Order Column

  • Adding tables for varying attributes

  • Determining hierarchies in relational tables

  • Using the Essbase Outline Extractor to extract dimensions

  • Using Star Analytics to build your star schema from existing Essbase cubes