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2 BaD Data kills essBase DataBases users love Essbase databases they trust and run away as fast as their feet will carry them from all others. There is a qualitative difference between a database incomplete via omission and one that is inaccurate through the commission of bad data. The former are candidates for improvement, the latter are practically radioactive, except instead of deadly gamma and beta waves, they radiate unemployment. unlike SQL databases that operate top-down, Essbase databases are effectively bottom-up.

Why this bad data is tolerated is a mystery; perhaps it is insufficient budget, or the belief that figuring out how to eliminate bad data is difficult, or maybe just that no one has tried. regardless of cause, the mission of this chapter is to give you the tools to Slay Bad Data with minimal manual intervention. 1 Assumptions about You, Dear Reader Who are you? What, you don’t know your own name? This sounds like a case for a psychiatrist and a strong dose of … whoops, wrong book, you need to go to the self-help section and put this one back where it belongs.

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1. Can you see the nine field edits? no? me neither. A few, very simple transformations within a Load rule are perfectly acceptable. Indeed, there are some actions that are best done in a Load rule or at least when done in a Load rule provide enormous flexibility. For instance, later in this chapter, I will illustrate how to dynamically define a dimension via a SQL-driven header; this simply cannot be done elsewhere. nevertheless, performing extensive transformations in a Load rule is a maintenance nightmare because the changes can be in so many different places and because the Load rule interface does not expose any transformations except through examination of all of the transformation options both at a global rule level and in each column.

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