Preface

This reference manual describes the relational views, SQL functions, and PL/SQL packages that support the OLAP option of the Oracle Database.

This preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This reference manual is intended for database administrators and application developers who perform the following tasks:

• Administer a database

• Administer analytic workspaces

• Build and maintain data warehouses or data marts

• Define metadata

• Develop analytical applications

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

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TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

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Related Documents

For more information see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle OLAP Application Developer's Guide

  Explains how SQL and Java applications can extend their analytic processing capabilities by using Oracle OLAP.

• Oracle OLAP DML Reference

  Contains a complete description of the OLAP Data Manipulation Language (OLAP DML) used to define and manipulate analytic workspace objects.

• Oracle OLAP Developer's Guide to the OLAP API

  Introduces the Oracle OLAP API, a Java application programming interface for Oracle OLAP, which is used to perform OLAP queries of the data stored in an Oracle database. Describes the API and how to discover metadata, create queries, and retrieve data.

• Oracle OLAP Java API Reference

  Describes the classes and methods in the Oracle OLAP Java API for querying analytic workspaces and relational data warehouses.

• Oracle OLAP Analytic Workspace Java API Reference

  Describes the classes and methods in the Oracle OLAP Analytic Workspace Java API for building and maintaining analytic workspaces.

• Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide

  Discusses the database structures, concepts, and issues involved in creating a data warehouse to support online analytical processing solutions.

• Oracle Database PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

  Explains the concepts and syntax of PL/SQL, Oracle's procedural extension of SQL.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: