Basic Syntactical Units of the OLAP DML

The basic syntactic units of the OLAP DML are:

Options to which you assign a value and that can influence the analytic workspace processing environment in various ways
Properties that Oracle OLAP checks to determine processing
Commands that initiate actions and functions that initiate actions and return a value.
Programs that perform complicated analysis and reporting

OLAP DML commands, functions, options, programs, and properties are collectively referred to as OLAP DML statements. OLAP DML Basics introduces basic elements of the OLAP DML. The complete syntax of each statement, usage notes, and examples is provided in Alphabetic Reference. Lists of statements, arranged by functional category are presented in Statements by Functional Category.

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Many OLAP DML statements can be coded as a 3-character abbreviation that consists of the first letter of the statement plus the next two consonants.