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Configuring Your Data Warehouse

Chapter summary

This chapter describes the structures in a data warehouse that are required by the OLAP metadata. It explains how to map these relational structures to multidimensional OLAP objects so that applications built using the OLAP API can access the data.

List of topics

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Your Data Warehouse

• Transforming Tables into Multidimensional Data Structures

• Database Requirements

• Creating Metadata

• Defining Dimensions

• Defining Cubes

• Viewing Cubes

• Defining Measure Folders

• Modifying the Metadata

• Creating Materialized Views