$AGGMAP

The $AGGMAP property specifies the default AGGMAP type aggmap for a variable. This is the aggmap that Oracle OLAP uses when the variable is the target of an AGGREGATE command or AGGREGATE function that does not include a USING phrase.

When calculating the data in a variable, Oracle OLAP checks to see if the variable has an $AGGMAP property and, if it does, uses the aggmap object specified by that property as the default aggregation specification for a variable.

Syntax

You add or delete an $AGGMAP property to the most recently defined or considered object (see DEFINE and CONSIDER) using a PROPERTY statement:

To add the property, issue the following statement.

PROPERTY '$AGGMAP' agggmap-name
To delete the property, issue the following statement.

PROPERTY DELETE '$AGGMAP'

Arguments

aggmap-name: A TEXT expression that is the name of a previously defined aggmap object.

Examples

Example 6-1 Using the $AGGMAP Property

Example 6-2, "Using the $AGGREGATE_FROM Property" illustrates how the AGGREGATE command shown in Example 6-28, "Using a CACHE Statement in an Aggregation Specification" can be simplified to the following statement.

AGGREGATE sales_by_revenue USING revenue_aggmap

You can further simplify the AGGREGATE command if you place an $AGGMAP property on the sales_by_revenue variable. To define an $AGGMAP property on the sales_by_revenue variable, issue the following statements.

CONSIDER sales_by_revenue
PROPERTY ('$AGGMAP' 'revenue_aggmap')

Now you can aggregate the data by issuing the following AGGREGATE command that does not include a USING clause.

AGGREGATE sales_by_revenue