Developing Essbase Applications

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slay Bad data In essBase

Cameron Lackpour

CONTENTS

2.1 Introduction 24

2.1.1 Assumptions about You, Dear Reader 24

2.1.2 A Note about the Examples 25

2.1.3 Where’s the Code? 26

2.2 Bad Data Kills Essbase Databases 26

2.2.1 What Is Bad Data? 26

2.2.2 What Is Good Data? 26

2.2.3 Trust Is Essential and Easily Lost 26

2.2.4 Good Data Drives Business Decisions 27

2.2.5 In Good Data We Trust 27

2.2.6 What Happens When Data Goes Bad 27

2.2.7 ree Tales of Data Error, Terror, and Learning 28

2.3 Quality Data Equals a Quality Essbase Database 31

2.3.1 How Not to Solve the Problem of Bad Data 31

2.3.2 e Data Challenge Remains, Even If Essbase Cannot Resolve It 32

2.3.3 Unique, Just Like You 33

2.3.4 Constraints on Everything 33

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