Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide- P2 ppsx

Hi all, this is Sarma here, first I would like to thank my beloved Lord Sri Sathya Sai Baba for giving me an opportunity to write this book.. Huge thanks to my wonderful wife Kalyani for

We met as co-workers working together to build Essbase systems for the company we are employed by Along the way we became more than co-workers, we became friends Here we are today, co-workers, friends, and now co-authors

Hi all, this is Sarma here, first I would like to thank my beloved Lord Sri Sathya Sai

Baba for giving me an opportunity to write this book Huge thanks to my wonderful

wife Kalyani for being so patient with my late nights, and for her faithful support in

writing this book, without her tremendous support this book would not be possible

Special thanks to my sweet kids Sai (8 years old) and Saranya (3 years old) for

sacrificing their fun and playtime with me Many thanks to my father and mother for giving me sincere encouragement while writing this book Thanks to all my special

friends who supported me while writing this book Lastly my utmost thanks to my

dearest friend Joe Gomez for his help and cooperation during this challenging period

Hi everyone, Joe here Boy, that’s a tough act to follow but I’ll try First and foremost,

I would like to thank my lovely wife Rita, my beautiful daughter Ashley and my

son Joey for putting up with me (or avoiding me), encouraging me, and supporting

me during my distracted state while I was involved in writing this book I especially want to thank my true friend Sarma Anantapantula for asking me if I would like to join him on this venture because I certainly wouldn’t have thought of it on my own! Collectively, we would like to thank James Lumsden, Acquisition Editor, without

whom we would have never written this book or very likely, any other book! Our

special thanks go to Bhupali Khule, Technical Editor, for seamlessly working with

us to complete this book and Pallavi Kachare, Technical Editor, for performing the

code reviews Our special thanks also go to Ved Prakash Jha, Development Editor,

and Rajashree Hamine, Project Coordinator, for making sure we are on target for

the launch We would also like to thank the entire Packt staff for all of their help and guidance throughout the completion of this book We would also like to thank the

reviewers for their reviews and suggestions

Finally we really want to thank all of you who purchased this book We have put

every bit of our Essbase knowledge and experience into this book so you can avoid

some of the inevitable pitfalls of learning a new piece of technology We hope you

feel that you made a worthwhile purchase We certainly feel you did!

Table of Contents

Chapter 2: Essbase Data and Design Considerations 31

Startup section 46

Minimum access level 46

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Chapter 3: Building the Essbase Outline 63

The Account dimension type 70 The Time dimension type 70 The Country dimension type 70

No dimension type or general dimension 71 The Currency Partition dimension type 71

Step 1: Start the Data Prep Editor 87

Generation reference 93 Level reference 94 Parent-child reference 94

Executing MaxL from EAS editor 106 Executing MaxL from command prompt 108

Essbase-friendly example 121

Types of files used for data loads 124 Relational databases 125

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Clearing Data Combinations 139 Header Definition 140

Global properties 142 Data Load Properties 142

Chapter 5: Calculating your Essbase Cube 155

EXCLUDE/ENDEXCLUDE 171

SET command functions 173