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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

You're reading from  Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847196866
Pages 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
1. Acknowledgements
2. Preface
1. Installing Oracle Essbase 2. Essbase Data and Design Considerations 3. Building the Essbase Outline 4. Loading Data into Essbase 5. Calculating your Essbase Cube 6. Using your Essbase Cube 7. Getting the most out of the Microsoft Excel Add-in 8. Automating your Essbase Cube 9. Advanced Techniques 10. Essbase Analytics Option 11. Essbase System 9 Components A New Essbase Companion—Oracle Smart View

Create your first Essbase database


You have your first Essbase application created and waiting. You have a good high level understanding of the types of Essbase databases that can be created. Let's now create your first database using EAS.

Select the Esscar application and right-click on it to bring up the application menu. From the menu, click on Create Database to bring up the following screen:

On the screen above, make sure you have the correct analytic server selected. Select the correct application (Esscar). Give a name to your database. In this case we will name the database ESSCAR (it's the same name used for the application).

Note

Remember, Oracle Essbase only supports object names upto 8 characters.

Leave the default setting of Normal and do not check Allow Duplicate Member Names. Click OK and you now have a bouncing Essbase database. Congratulations!

Next, click on (expand) the ESSCAR database name shown under the ESSCAR application in EAS to reveal the database object selections...

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