Changes in This Release for Oracle OLAP DML Reference

No changes have been made in Oracle OLAP DML Reference in this release. For information on changes in earlier releases, see the following topics.

• Changes in Oracle Database 23ai Release 4 (23.4)
  The following are the changes in Oracle Database release 23ai, version 23.4.

Changes in Oracle Database 23ai Release 4 (23.4)

The following are the changes in Oracle Database release 23ai, version 23.4.

See Desupported Features in Oracle Database 23ai for a complete list of desupported features in this release.

• Deprecated Features
  

Deprecated Features

Oracle recommends that you do not use deprecated features or values in new applications. Support for deprecated features is for backward compatibility only. For more information about deprecated features, see Oracle Database Upgrade Guide.

Deprecation of Oracle OLAP

Analytic workspaces, the OLAP DML programming language, financial reporting, and the OLAP Java API continue to be deprecated in Oracle Database 23ai.

Be aware that OLAP will not be supported beyond the term of the current release (Oracle Database 23ai) premier support. Oracle strongly recommends that you do not start new projects using OLAP and begin migrating applications using OLAP to alternatives now. If your application requires an in-database dimensional model, then consider using Oracle Analytic Views. Analytic views provide a dimensional semantic model, calculations, and query semantics using data in Oracle Database. When used with columnar tables, analytic views provide query performance similar to the OLAP Option. If your application requires support for advanced dimensional analytics, what-if analysis, or forecasting, then consider Oracle Essbase. Oracle Essbase is a multidimensional database management system with support for complex dimensional business analytics.