1 Introduction to the OLAP DML

This chapter provides an introduction to analytic workspaces and the OLAP DML. It includes the following topics:

• What is the OLAP DML?

• Basic Syntactical Units of the OLAP DML

• Creating New Workspaces and Objects

• Working with Previously-Defined Analytic Workspaces

• Making Selections and Working with Subsets of Data