Preface

The Oracle OLAP User's Guide explains how SQL applications can extend their analytic processing capabilities and manage summary data by using the OLAP option of Oracle Database. It also provides information about managing resources for OLAP.

The preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This manual is intended for DBAs who perform these tasks:

• Develop and manage a data warehouse

• Create and maintain dimensional data objects

• Administer Oracle Database with the OLAP option

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

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Related Documents

For more information about the OLAP option, see the following manuals in the Oracle Database 11g documentation set:

• Oracle OLAP Customizing Analytic Workspace Manager

  Describes how to customize Analytic Workspace Manager with XML documents and Java plug-ins.

• Oracle OLAP DML Reference

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

• Oracle Database Reference

  Contains full descriptions of the data dictionary views for cubes, cube dimensions, and other dimensional objects.

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

  Contains full descriptions of several PL/SQL packages for managing cubes.

• Oracle OLAP Java API Developer's Guide

  Introduces the Oracle OLAP API, a Java application programming interface for Oracle OLAP, which is used for defining, building, and querying dimensional objects in the database.

• Oracle OLAP Java API Reference

  Describes the classes and methods in the Oracle OLAP Java API for defining, building, and querying dimensional objects in the database.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: