Preface

The Oracle OLAP Application Developer's Guide explains how SQL and Java applications can extend their analytic processing capabilities by using the OLAP option in the Enterprise edition of the Oracle Database. It also provides information for Oracle DBAs about managing resources for OLAP.

The preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This manual is intended for applications developers and DBAs who perform these tasks:

• Develop business intelligence applications

• Design and develop dimensional data stores (analytic workspaces)

• Administer Oracle Database with the OLAP option

Documentation Accessibility

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following manuals in the Oracle Database 10g documentation set:

• Oracle OLAP Reference

  Explains the syntax of PL/SQL packages and types and the column structure of views related to Oracle OLAP.

• Oracle OLAP DML Reference

  Contains a complete description of the OLAP Data Manipulation Language (OLAP DML) used to define and manipulate analytic workspace objects.

• Oracle OLAP Developer's Guide to the OLAP API

  Introduces the Oracle OLAP API, a Java application programming interface for Oracle OLAP, which is used to perform online analytical processing of the data stored in an Oracle database. Describes the API and how to discover metadata, create queries, and retrieve data.

• Oracle OLAP Java API Reference

  Describes the classes and methods in the Oracle OLAP Java API for querying analytic workspaces and relational data warehouses.

• Oracle OLAP Analytic Workspace Java API Reference

  Describes the classes and methods in the Oracle OLAP Java API for building and maintaining analytic workspaces.

For more information about Oracle data warehouse and business intelligence technology, view the web page at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/focus-areas/bi-datawarehousing/index.html.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: