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Summary of Contents
The following list provides links to the main topics in the DatabaseAdministrator's Guide:PrefaceIntroducing Hyperion EssbaseUnderstanding Multidimensional DatabasesQuick Start for Implementing Analytic ServicesBasic Architectural ElementsCase Study: Designing a?Single-Server, Multidimensional DatabaseAbout Essbase XTD Administration ServicesCreating Applications and DatabasesCreating and Changing Database OutlinesSetting Dimension and Member PropertiesWorking with AttributesLinking Objects to Analytic Services DataDesigning and Building Currency Conversion ApplicationsDesigning Partitioned ApplicationsCreating and Maintaining PartitionsAccessing Relational Data with Hybrid AnalysisUnderstanding Data Loading and Dimension BuildingCreating Rules FilesUsing a Rules File to Perform Operations on Records, Fields, and DataPerforming and Debugging Data Loads or Dimension BuildsUnderstanding Advanced Dimension Building ConceptsCalculating Analytic Services DatabasesDeveloping FormulasReviewing Examples of FormulasDefining Calculation OrderDynamically Calculating Data Values
Calculating Time Series DataDeveloping Calculation ScriptsReviewing Examples of Calculation ScriptsDeveloping Custom-Defined Calculation MacrosDeveloping Custom-Defined Calculation FunctionsUnderstanding Report Script BasicsDeveloping Report ScriptsMining an Analytic Services DatabaseCopying Data Subsets and Exporting Data to Other ProgramsLearning to Write Queries With MaxL Data Manipulation LanguageManaging Security for Users and ApplicationsControlling Access to Database CellsSecurity ExamplesThe Analytic Services Implementation of UnicodeWorking With Unicode-Mode ApplicationsRunning Analytic Servers, Applications, and DatabasesManaging Applications and DatabasesUsing Analytic Services LogsManaging Database SettingsAllocating Storage and Compressing DataEnsuring Data IntegrityBacking Up and Restoring DataUsing MaxL Data Definition LanguageMonitoring PerformanceImproving Analytic Services PerformanceOptimizing Analytic Services CachesOptimizing Database RestructuringOptimizing Data LoadsOptimizing CalculationsOptimizing with Intelligent CalculationOptimizing Reports and Other Types of Retrieval
Preface
Welcome to the
Essbase XTD Analytic Services Database Administrator's Guide
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Purpose
This guide provides you with all the information that you need toimplement, design, and maintain an optimized Essbase XTD AnalyticServices multidimensional database. It explains the Analytic Servicesfeatures and options, and contains the concepts, processes, andexamples that you need to use the software.
Audience
This guide is for database administrators or system administrators whoare responsible for designing, creating, and maintaining applications,databases, and database objects (for example, data load rules, andcalculation scripts).
Sections
« prev | next »- Summary of Contents
- Preface
- Purpose
- Audience
- Document Structure
- Where to Find Documentation
- Conventions
- Additional Support
- Documentation Feedback
- Introducing Hyperion Essbase
- Key Features
- Essbase Product Components
- Understanding Multidimensional Databases
- OLAP and Multidimensional Databases
- Dimensions and Members
- Data Storage
- Quick Start for Implementing Analytic Services
- Basic Architectural Elements
- Attribute Dimensions and Standard Dimensions
- Sparse and Dense Dimensions
- Data Blocks and the Index System
- Selection of Sparse and Dense Dimensions
- Dense and Sparse Selection Scenarios
- The Analytic Services Solution
- Process for Designing a Database
- Case Study: The Beverage Company
- Analyzing and Planning
- Drafting Outlines
- Checking System Requirements
- Loading Test Data
- Defining Calculations
- Defining Reports
- Verifying the Design
- About Essbase XTD Administration Services
- Administration Services Architecture
- Deploying Administration Services
- Starting and Stopping Administration Services
- About Administration Services Users
- Connecting to Administration Services
- Adding Analytic Servers to Enterprise View
- About Analytic Server Connections and Ports
- About Administration Server
- Creating Applications and Databases
- Process for Creating Applications and Databases
- Understanding Applications and Databases
- Understanding Database Objects
- Using Substitution Variables
- Using Location Aliases
- Creating and Changing Database Outlines
- Process for Creating Outlines
- Creating and Editing Outlines
- Locking and Unlocking Outlines
- Adding Dimensions and Members to an Outline
- Understanding the Rules for Naming
- Setting Data Storage Properties
- Positioning Dimensions and Members
- Verifying Outlines
- Saving Outlines
- Setting Dimension and Member Properties
- Setting Dimension Types
- Setting Member Consolidation
- Calculating Members with Different Operators
- Determining How Members Store Data Values
- Setting Aliases
- Setting Two-Pass Calculations
- Creating Formulas
- Naming Generations and Levels
- Creating UDAs
- Adding Comments
- Working with Attributes
- Process for Creating Attributes
- Understanding Attributes
- Understanding Attribute Dimensions
- Designing Attribute Dimensions
- Building Attribute Dimensions
- Setting Member Names in Attribute Dimensions
- Calculating Attribute Data
- Linking Objects to Analytic Services Data
- Understanding LROs
- Understanding LRO Types and Data Cells
- Setting Up Permissions for LROs
- Viewing and Deleting LROs
- Exporting and Importing LROs
- Limiting LRO File Sizes for Storage Conservation
- Designing and Building Currency Conversion Applications
- About the Sample Currency Application
- Structure of Currency Applications
- Conversion Methods
- Building Currency Conversion Applications and Performing Conversions
- Designing Partitioned Applications
- Process for Designing a Partitioned Database
- Understanding Analytic Services Partitioning
- Deciding Whether to Partition a Database
- Determining Which Data to Partition
- Deciding Which Type of Partition to Use
- Planning for Security for Partitioned Databases
- Case Studies for Designing Partitioned Databases
- Creating and Maintaining Partitions
- Process for Creating Partitions
- Process for Maintaining Partitions
- Accessing Relational Data with Hybrid Analysis
- Understanding Hybrid Analysis
- Defining Hybrid Analysis Relational Sources
- Retrieving Hybrid Analysis Data
- Using Outline Editor with Hybrid Analysis
- Managing Data Consistency
- Managing Security in Hybrid Analysis
- Using Formulas with Hybrid Analysis
- Unsupported Functions in Hybrid Analysis
- Understanding Data Loading and Dimension Building
- Process for Data Loading and Dimension Building
- Data Sources
- Rules Files
- Situations That Do and Do Not Need a Rules File
- Data Sources That Do Not Need a Rules File
- Security and Multiple- User Considerations
- Creating Rules Files
- Understanding the Process for Creating Data Load Rules Files
- Understanding the Process for Creating Dimension Build Rules Files
- Combining Data Load and Dimension Build Rules Files
- Setting File Delimiters
- Naming New Dimensions
- Selecting a Build Method
- Setting and Changing Member and Dimension Properties
- Performing Operations on Records, Fields, and Data
- Setting Field Type Information
- Validating and Saving
- Using a Rules File to Perform Operations on Records, Fields, and Data
- Performing Operations on Records
- Performing Operations on Fields
- Performing Operations on Data
- Performing and Debugging Data Loads or Dimension Builds
- Prerequisites for Data Loads and Dimension Builds
- Performing Data Loads or Dimension Builds
- Stopping Data Loads or Dimension Builds
- Reviewing the Tips for Loading Data and Building Dimensions
- Debugging Data Loads and Dimension Builds
- Understanding Advanced Dimension Building Concepts
- Understanding Build Methods
- Using Generation References
- Using Level References
- Using Parent-Child References
- Adding a List of New Members
- Building Attribute Dimensions and Associating Attributes
- Building Shared Members by Using a Rules File
- Calculating Analytic Services Databases
- About Database Calculation
- About Multidimensional Calculation Concepts
- Setting the Default Calculation
- Calculating Databases
- Canceling Calculations
- Parallel and Serial Calculation
- Security Considerations
- Developing Formulas
- Understanding Formulas
- Understanding Formula Calculation
- Understanding Formula Syntax
- Reviewing the Process for Creating Formulas
- Displaying Formulas
- Composing Formulas
- Checking Formula Syntax
- Estimating Disk Size for a Calculation
- Using Formulas in Partitions
- Reviewing Examples of Formulas
- Calculating Period-to- Date Values
- Calculating Rolling Values
- Calculating Monthly Asset Movements
- Testing for #MISSING Values
- Calculating an Attribute Formula
- Defining Calculation Order
- Data Storage in Data Blocks
- Member Calculation Order
- Block Calculation Order
- Data Block Renumbering
- Cell Calculation Order
- Calculation Passes
- Calculation of Shared Members
- Dynamically Calculating Data Values
- Understanding Dynamic Calculation
- Benefitting from Dynamic Calculation
- Using Dynamic Calculation
- Choosing Values to Calculate Dynamically
- Choosing Between Dynamic Calc and Dynamic Calc and Store
- Understanding How Dynamic Calculation Changes Calculation Order
- Reducing the Impact on Retrieval Time
- Using Dynamic Calculations with Standard Procedures
- Creating Dynamic Calc and Dynamic Calc and Store Members
- Restructuring Databases
- Dynamically Calculating Data in Partitions
- Calculating Time Series Data
- Calculating First, Last, and Average Values
- Using Dynamic Time Series Members in Partitions
- Developing Calculation Scripts
- Understanding Calculation Scripts
- Understanding Calculation Script Syntax
- Planning Calculation Script Strategy
- Reviewing the Process for Creating Calculation Scripts
- Reviewing Examples of Calculation Scripts
- Calculating Variance
- Calculating Database Subsets
- Loading New Budget Values
- Calculating Product Share and Market Share Values
- Allocating Costs Across Products
- Allocating Values Within or Across Dimensions
- Goal Seeking Using the LOOP Command
- Forecasting Future Values
- Developing Custom- Defined Calculation Macros
- Understanding Custom- Defined Macros
- Viewing Custom- Defined Macros
- Creating Custom- Defined Macros
- Using Custom-Defined Macros
- Updating Custom- Defined Macros
- Copying Custom- Defined Macros
- Removing Custom- Defined Macros
- Developing Custom- Defined Calculation Functions
- Viewing Custom- Defined Functions
- Creating Custom- Defined Functions
- Using Registered Custom-Defined Functions
- Updating Custom- Defined Functions
- Removing Custom- Defined Functions
- Copying Custom- Defined Functions
- Considering How Custom-Defined Functions Affect Performance and Memory
- Understanding Report Script Basics
- Creating a Simple Report Script
- Understanding How Report Writer Works
- Planning Reports
- Considering Security and Multiple-User Issues
- Reviewing the Process for Creating Report Scripts
- Creating Report Scripts
- Saving Report Scripts
- Executing Report Scripts
- Copying Report Scripts
- Developing Free-Form Reports
- Developing Report Scripts
- Understanding Extraction and Formatting Commands
- Understanding Report Script Syntax
- Designing the Page Layout
- Formatting
- Selecting and Sorting Members
- Restricting and Ordering Data Values
- Converting Data to a Different Currency
- Generating Reports Using the C, Visual Basic, and Grid APIs
- Copying Data Subsets and Exporting Data to Other Programs
- Copying a Database Subset
- Process for Creating a Database Subset
- Exporting Data Using Report Scripts
- Importing Data Into Other Databases
- Exporting Data
- Managing Security for Users and Applications
- Understanding Security and Permissions
- Creating Users and Groups
- Granting Permissions to Users and Groups
- Managing Users and Groups
- Using the Hyperion Security Platform for External Authentication
- Managing Global Security for Applications and Databases
- Managing User Activity on the Analytic Server
- Understanding the essbase.sec Security File and Backup
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