Oracle9i OLAP Services Concepts and Administration Guide for Windows Release 1 (9.0.1) for Windows Part Number A90371-01 |
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Upgrading from Express Server, 3 of 5
Applications for OLAP Services are developed in Java using the OLAP API, as explained in Chapter 2. You cannot run Windows C++, HTML, or Java applications that were developed for use with Express Server.
Programs developed in the Express SPL can be modified using the OLAP Worksheet and executed by the OLAP API. These programs may need to be revised to remove SPL commands that are no longer available.
OLAP Services uses CORBA communications for its Java applications. Communications through SNAPI and Express Web Agent are no longer available. Session sharing is not supported.
OLAP Worksheet uses XCA for communication with the analytic workspace. However, XCA is not supported for user-developed applications and may produce unexpected results.
An OLAP service has a child-to-parent relationship with an Oracle relational database. An OLAP Services session is always connected to the database. You do not open a connection with the database as a separate or optional step.
You can retrieve data from the relational database in the following ways:
ODBC is not available, and thus access to third-party databases is not available through OLAP Services.
Oracle Express Relational Access Administrator and Oracle Express Relational Access Manager are not available in OLAP Services.
Numerous changes have been made to the Express Stored Procedure Language (now called the OLAP Data Manipulation Language). Support in the following areas has been added to the OLAP DML to provide compatibility with the RDBMS:
Support in the following areas has been dropped:
For comprehensive lists of new, obsolete, and significantly revised commands, open OLAP DML Help and click List of Changes on the Contents page.
In OLAP Services, the database administrator defines multidimensional objects and associated metadata in the relational database using the OLAP Management tool of Oracle Enterprise Manager, as described in Chapter 4.
The OLAP Worksheet allows DBAs to create objects in the analytic workspace by issuing DML commands. For the OLAP API to access these objects, the appropriate analytic workspace metadata must be defined.
Oracle Express Administrator is not available in OLAP Services, and the Oracle Express Objects metadata that it generated is not used by the OLAP API.
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