Analytic Services Fundamentals

7
Calculating Analytic Services
Databases

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Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

Describe Analytic Services calculation capabilities

Describe the outline calculation and explain its benefits

Describe the calculation script and explain its benefits

Execute outline calculations and calculation scripts from Administration

Services Console

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Calculating Data

Provides faster retrievals

Supports complex business analysis

Allocations
Product Mix
What If

Calculation

Calculated
Database

Input Data

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Report

Outline Calculations

Used for less complex calculations

Follow outline relationships

Fastest way to calculate entire database

Calculated
Database

Input Data

Outline
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Consolidation Operators and Member

Formulas

Consolidation operators

Member formulas

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Order of Outline Calculations

Analytic Services calculates the outline in the following order:
1. Accounts dimension
2. Time dimension
3. Other dense dimensions in top-down order
4. Other sparse dimensions in top-down order
5. Members that are tagged as Two-Pass calculations
1st pass

Level 0 data

2nd pass

Calculated data
(Before Two-Pass)
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Calculated data

(After Two-Pass)

Order of Member Calculations

17

Level 2

Level 1

1
2

Level 0

3
8
5
6
7
12
16
Calculation Order
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Executing Outline Calculations

2
1

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Calculation Scripts
Calculation scripts enable you to:

Calculate all or a portion of the database

Control the order in which dimensions are calculated

Perform complex calculations

Calculated
database

Level 0 data

Calculation script
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Creating Calculation Scripts

Opening the Calculation

Script Editor

Dimensions and
members

Functions and
commands

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Executing Calculation Scripts

You can execute calculation scripts from:

the Administration Services Console

an Excel spreadsheet

a MaxL script
Administration
Services Console

Excel
Calculation
MaxL script

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Calculated
database

Executing Calculation Scripts from

Administration Services Console

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Outline Enhancements That Affect

Calculations

Two-Pass Calculations

Dynamic Calculations

Dynamic Time Series

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Two-Pass Calculations

Before Two-Pass

After Two-Pass

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Assigning the Two-Pass Tag

2

Assigned
Two-Pass tag

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Dynamic Calculations

Advantages
Shorten batch database calculation time
Reduce disk storage usage
Reduce database restructure time
Reduce time to perform a backup

Disadvantages
May increase retrieval time
Change calculation order

Precalculated
Database

Data
Request

Calculated
Request

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Report

Assigning the Dynamic Calc Tag

2
1

Assigned
Dynamic
Calc
tag

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Dynamic Time Series

January

February

March

Sales

100

120

130

QTD Sales

100

220

350

Jan

Feb

Jan

Feb

Calc script

Dynamic
Time Series

Stored QTD

Non-stored QTD

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Enabling Dynamic Time Series Members

Result

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Summary
In this lesson, you should have
learned how to:

Describe Analytic Services

calculation capabilities
Describe the outline calculation and
explain its benefits
Describe the calculation script and
explain its benefits
Execute outline calculations and
calculation scripts from
Administration Services Console

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