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Understanding OLAP API Metadata

This chapter describes the metadata objects that the OLAP API provides, and explains how these objects relate to the OLAP metadata objects that a database administrator specifies using the OLAP Metadata APIs.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Overview of the OLAP API Metadata
• OLAP Metadata Objects
• Overview of MDM Metadata Objects in the OLAP API
• MdmDimension Class
• MdmLevel Class
• MdmHierarchy Class
• MdmListDimension Class
• MdmMeasure Class
• MdmAttribute Class
• Data Type and Type of MDM Metadata Objects