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into Essbase so those cool calculations and amazing we-never-even-considered-doing-
it-in-Essbase analyses can occur.
2.3.3 Unique, Just Like You
Your Essbase database has one-of-a-kind data quality issues given your unique busi-
ness environment. Given that Essbase Load Rules are not the place to x them, the
approaches and techniques used to guarantee that only good fact data and metadata
are loaded to Essbase depend upon your database’s requirements. is chapter cannot
specically address those circumstances because they are unknown to the author.
What this chapter can and will cover is the single most common data quality issue:
unloaded data. By this I mean data that exists in a fact source and should be loaded ...