
44 DB2 Cube Views: A Primer
Low administrative effort
Once your DB2 Cube Views metadata is populated, you can realize an
administrative benefit by passing it over to your MOLAP tool via a metadata
bridge. Rather than having to use the MOLAP tool’s GUI to describe your
relational environment as a collection of facts and dimensions, and then define
one or more hierarchies over each dimension and then map one or more MOLAP
database definitions to your relational model, all this work will have been done for
you as an automatic by-product of running the bridge, saving considerable time.
Fast MOLAP database loads and refresh
DB2 Cube Views can aut ...