Unlike many of the more typical relational database applications, Essbase has many more database administrator options that can drastically affect the performance and reliability of your Essbase database system.
Perhaps it's time to repeat what we've said before, "Essbase is an art, not a science." There, we'll let that sink in a little bit.
What we mean by the previous and often repeated statement is that most of the time your experience and good judgment can be far more valuable when giving consideration to tuning your Essbase database than any stale old list of hard-coded formulas.
When you actually get to tuning your system always keep in mind that what you read here, learn from others, or even glean from Oracle system documentation, is in most cases to be taken as guidelines for your own individual situation.
The actual actions you'll be performing, when you are tuning your database, are items like adjusting several optional cache sizes through both the...
