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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

Creating hierarchies using a generation reference table


In this recipe, we will be using a SUPPLIER table, created in a generation reference, to build the SUPPLIER dimension. The SUPPLIER dimension has a geographical hierarchy. A geographical hierarchy is a natural hierarchy, which makes it an excellent candidate for a generation reference table.

Getting ready

To get started, click on the Start menu and navigate to Programs | Oracle EPM System | Essbase | Essbase Studio. The login menu will pop-up. Enter your server, username, and password, and click on the Log in button.

How to do it…

  1. On the right side of your Essbase Studio screen, you are going to see two tabs. Click on the Minischemas tab, drill down on the Minischema node, drill down on the TBC minischema, select the SUPPLIER folder, and drag the folder to the Metadata Navigator.

  2. Right-click on the Root directory under the Metadata Navigator, click on New, and then on Folder. Enter HIERARCHIES in the name textbox for the folder in the Properties...