Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Many people scratch their heads and wonder why you would want to allow
duplicate member names in your database outline. Well, one example would be
the city of New York and the state of New York. You may want to have New York
in your outline as one state of the United States and then you may want to have
New York in your outline as a city of New York state.
A standard existing database outline can be converted to allow
duplicate member names, but an outline that allows duplicate
member names cannot be converted back to a standard outline.
Exercise great care when using this option, as it is much like having
data in a relational database table with a duplicate primary key.
Create your first Essbase database
You have your first Essbase application created and waiting. You have a good high
level understanding of the types of Essbase databases that can be created. Let's now
create your first database using EAS.
Select the Esscar application and right-click on it to bring up the application menu.
From the menu, click on
Create Database
to bring up the following screen:
On the screen above, make sure you have the correct analytic server selected. Select
the correct application (
Esscar
). Give a name to your database. In this case we will
name the database
ESSCAR
(it's the same name used for the application).
