MaxL is a Multidimensional Access Language developed for Essbase analytics. MaxL, as it is known, is a powerful scripting tool developed for the system administrator of Essbase to perform administrative tasks from the creation of a new user, to adding new security filters, to updating the database outline, to importing data, to executing calculation scripts, and finally to the deletion of a database or an application.
These tasks are very important to do, but remember, if you make a mistake in one of these scripts your entire database cube and all of the data can be lost. Please use extreme caution while executing MaxL statements.
MaxL statements are case sensitive and must always end with a semi-colon.
MaxL supports most of the tasks and functions that you can perform in the EssCmd scripting language and it also supports all of the new functionalities that have been added to the newer versions of Essbase. EssCmd is used extensively in the older versions of Essbase and...
