8
Designing Programs

Chapter summary

This chapter provides information about writing, compiling, testing, and calling programs that are written in the OLAP DML.

List of topics

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Introduction to OLAP DML Programs

• Invoking Programs

• Defining and Editing Programs

• Using Variables in Programs

• Passing Arguments

• Writing User-Defined Functions

• Controlling the Flow of Execution

• Directing Output

• Preserving the Session Environment

• Handling Errors

• Compiling Programs

• Testing Programs