Step 3: Open data load file or the SQL data source file
Step 4: Set the Data Source Properties
Step 5: Set the View to Dimension build fields
Step 6: Select Dimension build method
Generation reference
Level reference
Parent-child reference
Step 7: Format file
Step 8: Associate fields with dimensions
Step 9: Validate the Dimension Build rules file
Update your outline using a rules file
Update your outline using the EAS Outline Editor
Update using MaxL Shell
Executing MaxL from EAS editor
Executing MaxL from command prompt
Attribute dimensions
User Defined Attributes (UDA)
Dynamic Time Series
Shared members
Summary
Chapter 4: Loading Data into Essbase
Make your data Essbase-friendly
Essbase-friendly thoughts
Essbase-friendly example
Types of data sources
Type of data
Types of files used for data loads
Relational databases
Data load methods
Data file freeform (no load rule)
Essbase export and import (no load rule)
Structured data load (load rule used)
Microsoft Excel Lock and Send (no load rule)
Building your first data load rules file
Step 1: Starting the Data Prep Editor
Step 2: Associating the data load rules file
Step 3: Opening data load file or the SQL
data source file
Step 4: Setting the View to Data Load Fields
Step 5: Setting the Data Source Properties
Step 6: Updating the Data Load Settings
Step 7: Setting the Data Load Values
Clearing Data Combinations
Header Definition
Step 8: Associating fields with Data Load Properties
Global properties
Data Load Properties
Step 9: Validating the data load rules file
Step 10: Saving the data load rules file
Loading data into your database
Using the EAS to load data into your
Essbase cube
Loading data using MaxL
Data Load vs. Dimension Build
Summary
Chapter 5: Calculating your Essbase Cube
Calculating your database
The Essbase calculation script
Essbase outline member formula
Calculation types explained
Calculation Scripts
Stored data member formula
Dynamic Calc and Dynamic Calc and Store
Essbase calculation terminology
Default database calculation script
Calc All
Calculate/Aggregate dimension
Essbase Calc commands and functions
Data declarations
Control flow
FIX/ENDFIX
EXCLUDE/ENDEXCLUDE
Functional
SET command functions
Conditionals
IF/ENDIF
Boolean
Relationship functions
Operators
Member set
Range (Financial)
Forecasting
Statistical
Date and Time
Miscellaneous
Order of calculation
Two-Pass Calc
Using Substitution Variables
Substitution Variables using EAS
Substitution Variables using MaxL
Create variables at the server level
Create variables at the application level
Create variables at the database level
Displaying the Substitution Variable and its value
Displaying the Substitution Variable in the
SQL editor
Building your first Calculation Script
Writing and saving a Calculation Script
Executing your Calculation Scripts
Running Calculation Scripts manually
using EAS
Running a Calculation Script using an Essbase Command Script (EssCmd)
What the EssCmd script looks like
Running a Calculation Script using a
MaxL Script
Running a Calculation Script using the Essbase API
Running a Calculation Script from
Microsoft Excel
Running a Calculation Script through the
Essbase Add-In
Running a Calculation Script using Microsoft
Excel VBA
Summary
Chapter 6: Using your Essbase Cube
Using your Essbase database
How do you use your data in the real world
Ad hoc data
Canned reporting
Export data
Forecast analysts
Planning analysts
Budget analysts
Financial analysts
The real target users of your Essbase data
Ways to extract your Essbase data
The Essbase Report Script
How to create an Essbase Report Script
Report script commands and functions
Report layout commands
Data range commands
Data ordering command
Member selection and sorting commands
Format commands
Column or row calculation
Member names and aliases
Building your first Essbase report script
Executing your report scripts
Run reports using EAS
Running a report script using an Essbase command script
Running calc using a MaxL script
Previewing data in EAS
Cubeview
Properties
Summary
Chapter 7: Getting the most out of the Microsoft Excel Add-in
Reporting with the Microsoft Excel Add-in
Connecting to Essbase
Connecting to Essbase from Microsoft Excel
Disconnecting from Essbase
Launching the Essbase Query Designer
Retrieving data from Essbase
Setting the add-in spreadsheet options
Display tab
Zoom tab
Mode tab
Global tab
Selecting Essbase members for your query
Using the Keep Only function
Using the Remove Only function
Zooming in on your data
Zooming out on your data
Pivot Essbase members on your spreadsheet
Flashback: The Essbase Add-in Undo
Locking the data and retrieving
Locking the data
Unlocking the locked data
Sending your data to the database
Running a database calculation
Retrieving your sheet without data
Zooming in on sample data
Linking objects to your data
Creating graphical data representations
Using the currency conversion tool
Custom Microsoft Excel workbook reporting
A final word on the Essbase add-in
Using the Essbase Query Designer
Where do I find the Essbase Query Designer
Creating a query with Essbase Query Designer
Page dimensions
Row dimensions
Column dimensions
Sample query
Report script by-product
Summary
Chapter 8: Automating your Essbase Cube
Essbase command scripts (EssCmd)
Creating an Essbase command script
EssCmd commands and categories
Coding a basic EssCmd
Always remember EssCmd logging
Connecting to an Essbase server
What about error checking
Adding some functional commands
The finished script
Executing an EssCmd
Essbase MaxL scripts
Logging on to the Essbase server
Working with an Essbase application in MaxL
Creating an application
Altering the application
Display application
Drop application
Working with an Essbase database from MaxL
Creating or replacing a database
Altering a database
Display database
Drop database
Working with data in MaxL
Working with database calculations in MaxL
Create calculation
Display calculation
Execute calculation
Drop calculation
Working with user privileges in MaxL
Create user
Alter user
Display user
Drop user
Grant user
Working at the System level with MaxL
Alter system properties
Display system properties
Substitution variables
Executing a MaxL statement
Executing MaxL from Command Prompt
Executing MaxL from EAS
Essbase Application Programming
Interface (API)
Installing the Essbase API
What you should know to use the
Essbase API
What functions are available in the
Essbase API
Essbase API programming tips
Essbase nested coding style examples
Essbase API function declarations
How to code an API function
Essbase API code sample blocks
The sample API subroutine explained
Summary
Chapter 9: Advanced Techniques
Performance tuning your database
The shape of your database outline
The hourglass outline
Database block size
Database configuration settings
Data retrieval buffers
Data cache settings
Data load and storage settings
Partitioning databases
Analytic server configuration file
Configuration categories
Configuration settings to consider
Ports and connections
Logging and error handling
Calculation
Data import/export
Memory management
essbase.cfg memory settings
Summary
Chapter 10: Essbase Analytics Option
What is ASO
Creating an aggregate storage
Application|Database
Hierarchies
Stored hierarchies
Dynamic hierarchies
Outline paging
Aggregation
MDX query language
MDX functions for ASO
MDX function examples
MDX query syntax
Executing an MDX query
Tuples and Sets
Pros and cons of ASO and BSO
Pros and cons of BSO
Pros
Cons
Pros and cons of ASO
Pros
Cons
Summary
Chapter 11: Essbase System 9 Components
Overview of System 9 components
Essbase Analytic Services (Essbase agent)
Essbase Planning
Essbase analytics
Hyperion Application Link/Oracle
Application Link
Oracle Business Rules
Oracle Reports
Essbase Shared Services
Oracle Essbase Provider Services
Essbase Smart Office
Oracle Essbase Financial Reporting
Smart View for Microsoft Office
Summary
Appendix: A New Essbase Companion—Oracle Smart View
Reporting with Oracle Smart View
Adding a data source with the connection manager
Retrieving data using Smart View in
Microsoft Excel
POV Manager
Submitting data and calc scripts in Smart View
Using Smart View in other Microsoft Office products
Index
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Loading Data into Essbase [ 150 ] Oops! There is a warning message indicating there was an issue with some of the data and that some or all of the data did not load into your Essbase database. In order to debug the issue, you need to look into the error le generated by the data load process. As you can see in the previous screenshot, the member name ES440 is not found in the data base outline. This means this member does not exist in the database outline. Just to be sneaky, we removed the alias for the 4 X 4 PICKUP member from the outline on purpose to force this error. Essbase will attempt to load data into the database using the actual member names or aliases. You can even select a specic alias table to use. Anytime if you see the Member Not Found in database message, it means this member does not exist in the Essbase outline. Let us add the alias code ES440 back into the outline and rerun the data load. Hooray, we did it! As you can see in the following message, the data has successfully loaded into your Essbase database without any error messages: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com Chapter 4 [ 151 ] Loading data using MaxL By now, you must be familiar with the MaxL scripting language and its statements. We used MaxL to update the Essbase outline in the previous chapter. As you know, there are three ways you can execute a MaxL script. First, using EAS and the MaxL editor, second, you can execute MaxL scripts from the Command Prompt, and third, MaxL scripts can be executed from shell commands within another program. Let's use the EAS and the MaxL editor to create a MaxL script and then execute the script to load data into the Essbase database. Steps to execute MaxL from the EAS editor: 1. Within EAS, Click on File|Editor | MaxL Script Editor. 2. The MaxL editor will open. 3. Import Database MaxL statement should be used to load data. Syntax for the Import Database MaxL statement: IMPORT DATABASE APPLICATION NAME.DATABASE NAME The various elds present in the MaxL statement are: • DATA: We need to say data since we are loading data into the database. • CONNECT AS <Database Username>: Please specify the user name here since we are loading the data from the relational database. • IDENTIFIED BY <Database password>: Species your database password. • USING <LOCAL SERVER NAME>: Location of the rules le. • RULES_FILE <RULE FILE NAME>: Name of the rule le like dSales. • ON ERROR WRITE TO <PATH FOR ERROR FILE>: Error le information. The Path for error le c:/book/dataload_chap4.err The complete MaxL statement with correct syntax: import database 'ESSCAR'.'ESSCAR' data connect as 'hypuser' identified by 'password' using server rules_file 'dSales' on error write to c:/book/dataload_chap4.err This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com Loading Data into Essbase [ 152 ] Move the above syntax into the MaxL editor, and execute the MaxL statement. The statement should run without any error messages being generated. The next screenshot shows that the data has loaded successfully into the Essbase cube using a MaxL script statement: Now that you have successfully loaded the base data into your Essbase database, we now need to calculate the data in order for the data to be rolled up in the hierarchies described in the database outline. Parent values need to be summed from children values. Derived values need to be calculated from the newly loaded data component values. All of this and more is performed using the Essbase calculation scripts, known simply as Calcs. Calcs will be discussed in much greater detail in the next chapter, but before we continue, let us quickly recap the differences between a Data Load and a Dimension Build. Data Load vs. Dimension Build First, an Essbase data load is very similar to an Essbase dimension build. Second, an Essbase data load is very different from an Essbase dimension build. How can we make a contradictory statement like that? This is Essbase, that's how! Remember, Essbase is an art, not a science. This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com Chapter 4 [ 153 ] Loading data into an Essbase database is the process of loading specic data values into your Essbase database, based on a predened database outline. This predened database outline contains all of the necessary data attributes to organize the data into a logical and recognizable format. Building dimensions in an Essbase database outline is the process of loading data as data attributes, instead of data values, into the database in the form of adding new dimension members to the database outline. The missing data attributes in the database outline that are contained in the data are added by the dimension build process so that the accompanying data values can be loaded and not rejected. Summary Wow, who knew Essbase was such an easy to use and versatile tool when it came to loading data and maintaining your outline? Let's see, we have covered the how and why of making your data Essbase-friendly. We have also learned what it means to make data Essbase-friendly and what you need to do to make it so. As if that wasn't enough, you've also learned all about what are referred to as data sources for Essbase. You now know that a data source can be merely data values you load into your Essbase database, based on a predened database outline and data attributes accompanying the data values. You have learned about the various types of data sources, how Essbase deals with them, and what you need to do to lter, manipulate, or cleanse them before use. After all of that, we took all what you've learned about data and data sources and applied it by creating your rst data load rules in Oracle Essbase. You then used that load rule to load some honest to goodness real data into your Esscar database. That was easy, wasn’t it? In the next chapter, we get into the handy dandy Essbase calculation script. This small tool is pretty much singularly responsible for the vast differences between Oracle Essbase and any typical relational database. Not only can you calculate data on the y, you create new data elements that are derived from component data elements that exist in the database, without loading large amounts of data if the results you want can be derived from the data already existing in your database. Turn the page and let's get started on calcs! This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 2009 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 79423 Download at Boykma.Com . Load vs. Dimension Build First, an Essbase data load is very similar to an Essbase dimension build. Second, an Essbase data load is very different from an Essbase dimension build. How can we. 20 09 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 794 23 Download at Boykma.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 20 09 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 794 23 Download. into your Essbase database without any error messages: This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Paul Corcorran on 5th July 20 09 8601 ave. p #1, , lubbock, , 794 23 Download