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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

The shape of your database outline


What are they talking about when we refer to the shape of an Essbase outline? How can an Essbase database outline have a shape? Well conceptually every Essbase database outline has a shape. What you want to be concerned with is what shape your outline has.

Believe it or not, the shape of your outline is one of the most important considerations for overall database performance, but it is still a guideline. There will be times when this guideline simply will not work for you.

Everyone knows what an hourglass looks like, right? An hourglass is wide at the ends and narrow in the middle. Well in most cases, you want your Essbase database outline to have the shape of an hourglass, really.

The hourglass outline

Here is what we mean by all of this shape nonsense. The shape is determined by the size and storage type of the dimensions in the Essbase database outline. It is generally recognized in the Essbase community that the optimal arrangement for your database outline...

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