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Developing a Summary Management Strategy

This chapter provides information to help you develop a summary management strategy specific to the requirements of the OLAP API. It describes the kinds of materialized views you will need to create, and it presents an overview of the tools that can assist you in creating them.

See Also: Chapter 29, "Creating Dimension Materialized Views" Chapter 30, "Creating Fact Materialized Views With DBMS_ODM" Chapter 31, "Creating Fact Materialized Views With OLAP Summary Advisor"

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Optimizing the Database for OLAP
• Summary Management Options
• Materialized Views and OLAP Metadata
• Dimension Materialized Views
• Fact Materialized Views
• Choosing the Right Summary Management Solution