Working With Essbase Partitions

If you use Oracle Essbase Partitioning, partitions can access data shared between databases on different applications or servers. For information on partitions, see the Oracle Essbase Database Administrator's Guide.

Before refreshing application databases in Oracle Hyperion Planning, remove the Essbase partition definitions. This prevents overwriting the Essbase partitions or corrupting the Essbase database. After refreshing, you can redefine the Essbase partitions.

If you use replicated partitions, you can create the partition definition at replication time, run the partition, and drop the partition definition. You need not remove the partition definition during refresh because it is created when the partition is run.