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Table of Contents
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Date and Time 186
Miscellaneous 186
Order of calculation 187
Two-Pass Calc 189
Using Substitution Variables 191
Substitution Variables using EAS 192
Substitution Variables using MaxL 194
Create variables at the server level 195
Create variables at the application level 195
Create variables at the database level 196
Displaying the Substitution Variable and its value 196
Displaying the Substitution Variable in the SQL editor 198
Building your rst Calculation Script 199
Writing and saving a Calculation Script 200
Executing your Calculation Scripts 201
Running Calculation Scripts manually using EAS 201
Running a Calculation Script using an Essbase
Command Script (EssCmd) 203
What the EssCmd script looks like 204
Running a Calculation Script using a MaxL Script 205
Running a Calculation Script using the Essbase API 208
Running a Calculation Script from Microsoft Excel 209
Running a Calculation Script through the Essbase Add-In 210
Running a Calculation Script using Microsoft Excel VBA 211
Summary 212
Chapter 6: Using your Essbase Cube 213
Using your Essbase database 213
How do you use your data in the real world 214
Ad hoc data 214

Canned reporting 214
Export data 215
Forecast analysts 215
Planning analysts 216
Budget analysts 217
Financial analysts 218
The real target users of your Essbase data 218
Ways to extract your Essbase data 218
The Essbase Report Script 220
How to create an Essbase Report Script 221
Report script commands and functions 223
Report layout commands 224
Data range commands 225
Data ordering command 226
Member selection and sorting commands 226
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Format commands 227
Column or row calculation 228
Member names and aliases 230
Building your rst Essbase report script 230
Executing your report scripts 234
Run reports using EAS 235
Running a report script using an Essbase command script 236
Running calc using a MaxL script 238
Previewing data in EAS 239
Cubeview 240

Properties 241
Summary 242
Chapter 7: Getting the most out of the Microsoft Excel Add-in 243
Reporting with the Microsoft Excel Add-in 243
Connecting to Essbase 246
Connecting to Essbase from Microsoft Excel 246
Disconnecting from Essbase 248
Launching the Essbase Query Designer 249
Retrieving data from Essbase 249
Setting the add-in spreadsheet options 250
Display tab 251
Zoom tab 253
Mode tab 254
Global tab 256
Selecting Essbase members for your query 258
Using the Keep Only function 263
Using the Remove Only function 264
Zooming in on your data 264
Zooming out on your data 265
Pivot Essbase members on your spreadsheet 265
Flashback: The Essbase Add-in Undo 266
Locking the data and retrieving 266
Locking the data 267
Unlocking the locked data 267
Sending your data to the database 267
Running a database calculation 268
Retrieving your sheet without data 269
Zooming in on sample data 270
Linking objects to your data 270
Creating graphical data representations 271

Using the currency conversion tool 272
Custom Microsoft Excel workbook reporting 272
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A nal word on the Essbase add-in 274
Using the Essbase Query Designer 274
Where do I nd the Essbase Query Designer 274
Creating a query with Essbase Query Designer 278
Page dimensions 281
Row dimensions 281
Column dimensions 281
Sample query 281
Report script by-product 288
Summary 290
Chapter 8: Automating your Essbase Cube 291
Essbase command scripts (EssCmd) 292
Creating an Essbase command script 293
EssCmd commands and categories 295
Coding a basic EssCmd 297
Always remember EssCmd logging 297
Connecting to an Essbase server 298
What about error checking 298
Adding some functional commands 299
The nished script 300
Executing an EssCmd 301
Essbase MaxL scripts 304
Logging on to the Essbase server 305

Working with an Essbase application in MaxL 306
Creating an application 306
Altering the application 307
Display application 311
Drop application 311
Working with an Essbase database from MaxL 311
Creating or replacing a database 312
Altering a database 313
Display database 315
Drop database 315
Working with data in MaxL 315
Working with database calculations in MaxL 317
Create calculation 317
Display calculation 317
Execute calculation 317
Drop calculation 318
Working with user privileges in MaxL 318
Create user 319
Alter user 319
Display user 320
Drop user 320
Grant user 320
Working at the System level with MaxL 321
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Alter system properties 321
Display system properties 321

Substitution variables 322
Executing a MaxL statement 323
Executing MaxL from Command Prompt 324
Executing MaxL from EAS 325
Essbase Application Programming Interface (API) 326
Installing the Essbase API 327
What you should know to use the Essbase API 327
What functions are available in the Essbase API 328
Essbase API programming tips 329
Essbase nested coding style examples 330
Essbase API function declarations 331
How to code an API function 332
Essbase API code sample blocks 333
The sample API subroutine explained 336
Summary 337
Chapter 9: Advanced Techniques 339
Performance tuning your database 339
The shape of your database outline 340
The hourglass outline 340
Database block size 342
Database conguration settings 343
Data retrieval buffers 343
Data cache settings 344
Data load and storage settings 345
Partitioning databases 347
Analytic server conguration le 352
Conguration categories 355
Conguration settings to consider 356
Ports and connections 356
Logging and error handling 356

Calculation 357
Data import/export 358
Memory management 359
essbase.cfg memory settings 360
Summary 362
Chapter 10: Essbase Analytics Option 365
What is ASO 366
Creating an aggregate storage Application|Database 366
Hierarchies 370
Stored hierarchies 371
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Dynamic hierarchies 372
Outline paging 372
Aggregation 373
MDX query language 373
MDX functions for ASO 374
MDX function examples 375
MDX query syntax 376
Executing an MDX query 376
Tuples and Sets 378
Pros and cons of ASO and BSO 378
Pros and cons of BSO 379
Pros 379
Cons 379
Pros and cons of ASO 380
Pros 380

Cons 380
Summary 382
Chapter 11: Essbase System 9 Components 383
Overview of System 9 components 383
Essbase Analytic Services (Essbase agent) 384
Essbase Planning 384
Essbase analytics 385
Hyperion Application Link/Oracle
Application Link 385
Oracle Business Rules 386
Oracle Reports 387
Essbase Shared Services 387
Oracle Essbase Provider Services 388
Essbase Smart Ofce 388
Oracle Essbase Financial Reporting 389
Smart View for Microsoft Ofce 390
Summary 391
Appendix: A New Essbase Companion—Oracle Smart View 393
Reporting with Oracle Smart View 394
Adding a data source with the connection manager 395
Retrieving data using Smart View in Microsoft Excel 400
POV Manager 402
Submitting data and calc scripts in Smart View 404
Using Smart View in other Microsoft Ofce products 406
Index 409
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