Chapter 5. Calculating your Essbase Cube

Let's take a minute and review what we have completed so far. We now have a fully functioning Essbase operation set up. The server software is installed, the client software is installed, a real application and a database are built, and the database is loaded with data. It's all there and ready for the heart of the system. If the database outline is the foundation of an Essbase database then the calculation scripts are the heart of an Essbase database.

Although you can calculate both an ASO database and a BSO database, unless otherwise noted, the instructions in this chapter pertain primarily to the BSO.

In this chapter, you will learn about one of the most important pieces of functionality in Oracle Essbase. ...

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