Oracle9i OLAP Services Developer's Guide to the OLAP DML Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A86720-01 |
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Using Embedded SQL, 3 of 15
OLAP Services is always connected to its parent Oracle relational database instance. There is no need to establish a connecting using the OLAP DML. OLAP Services does not allow connections to Oracle instances other than the parent instance.
SQL consists of statements that retrieve, delete, insert, change, and manipulate data stored in relational tables. You can use this embedded SQL in your OLAP DML programs.
You can issue SQL statements from an OLAP Services session using the SQL OLAP DML command. Ordinarily, the command is used in an OLAP DML program, but you can also execute some SQL commands it interactively. The argument for the SQL command is a SQL statement.
SQL sql_statement
You can use almost any SQL statement that is supported by Oracle. For example, you can fetch data from relational tables and store it in OLAP DML dimensions and variables.
Wherever you would normally use double quotes (") in a SQL statement, you must use a single quote (') in OLAP Services because the OLAP DML interprets a double quote as the beginning of a comment.
The OLAP DML evaluates SQL statements, either in whole or in part, before sending them to the relational database. Be sure to use the syntax described in this manual, rather than the syntax described in your SQL documentation.
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