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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

Building your first Calculation Script


The name of this section gives you the impression that we will be discussing Essbase database calculation scripts, exclusively. What you learn here is also about 95% applicable to coding database outline member formulas as well. As mentioned earlier in this chapter, aside from a few member set functions and the FIX and EXCLUDE commands, almost everything that you can code in a database calculation script can be coded in a database outline member formula.

To begin with, open the Calculation Script Editor in EAS by drilling down to your Essbase database like Essbase Server | Application | Database, then right-clicking on Calculation Scripts and then selecting the Create calculation script option. You will now see the Calculation Script Editor as shown earlier in this chapter.

Take a close look at the editor itself. Notice the various options that help simplify the calculation script writing process on the left side. First up is a checkbox allowing you...

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