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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

Partitioning data from BSO to ASO cubes


In this recipe, we will use the Aggregate Storage Outline Conversion Wizard to convert the Sample.Basic block storage to an aggregate storage database. We will then clear the new aggregate storage database using replicate partition to load data from the source cube Sample.Basic to our new ASO database.

Getting ready

To get started, click on the Start menu and navigate to Programs | 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. In EAS, click on the File menu, click on Wizards | Aggregate Storage Outline Conversion, click on the Essbase Server tab, click on the Look in drop-down box, click on the Sample application, double-click on Basic, and select Basic.otl. Your screen should look like the following image:

  2. Click on the Next > button and you will get a list of errors that you...