Developing Programs and Applications

To support the functionality outlined above, Oracle LSH supports a definitional methodology. Each time you write a program in Oracle LSH you must also define the program as an object, create an instance of the object definition, and install it in the database so that it can interact with data. You can reuse a definition by creating multiple instances of it.

Oracle LSH has seven predefined primary object types: Tables (which are equivalent to SAS data sets and Oracle tables), Load Sets, Programs, Workflows, Report Sets, Data Marts, and Business Areas (the basis for data visualizations). Each object type interacts in a predefined way with the internal system to accomplish a particular data handling task as described later in this chapter.

You can develop libraries of standard object definitions that you have validated and declared suitable for reuse. You can then use these library definitions as modular building blocks to accomplish different business tasks, called applications in Oracle LSH.

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