Oracle DBMS_DIMENSION
Version 11.2.0.3
 
General Information
Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmssum.sql
First Available Created 16-OCT-1997
Dependencies
ALL_DIMENSIONS DBMS_OUTPUT
ALL_DIM_ATTRIBUTES DBMS_SUMADVISOR
ALL_DIM_CHILD_OF DBMS_SUMVDM
ALL_DIM_HIERARCHIES DBMS_SYS_ERROR
ALL_DIM_JOIN_KEY DBMS_UTILITY
ALL_DIM_LEVELS PRVT_DIMENSION_SYS_UTIL
ALL_DIM_LEVEL_KEY USER_TABLES
Security Model Execute is granted to PUBLIC
Subprograms
 
DESCRIBE_DIMENSION
Prints out the definition of the input dimension, including dimension owner and name, levels, hierarchies, attributes.

This script uses the objects built with {$ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/utldim.sql
dbms_dimension.describe_dimension(dimension IN VARCHAR2);
conn / as sysdba

desc sh.times_dim

set serveroutput on

exec dbms_dimension.describe_dimension('SH.TIMES_DIM');
 
VALIDATE_DIMENSION
Verifies that the relationships specified in a DIMENSION are correct. Offending rowids are stored in advisor repository. This overload is for compatibility with 8i and 9i databases.

Overload 1
dbms_dimension.validate_dimension(
dimension_name  IN VARCHAR2,
dimension_owner IN VARCHAR2,
incremental     IN BOOLEAN,
check_nulls     IN BOOLEAN := FALSE);
conn / as sysdba

exec dbms_dimension.validate_dimension('TIMES_DIM', 'SH', TRUE, TRUE);
Verifies that the relationships specified in a DIMENSION are correct. Offending rowids are stored in advisor repository. This overload is for compatibility with 10g and newer databases.

Overload 2
dbms_dimension.validate_dimension(
dimension    IN VARCHAR2,
incremental  IN BOOLEAN := TRUE,
check_nulls  IN BOOLEAN := FALSE,
statement_id IN VARCHAR2 := NULL);
conn / as sysdba

exec dbms_dimension.validate_dimension('SH.TIMES_DIM', TRUE, TRUE, 'validate dimension demo');

@$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utldim.sql

desc dimension_exceptions

exec dbms_dimension.validate_dimension('SH.TIMES_DIM', TRUE, TRUE, 'validate dimension demo');

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dimension_exceptions;
 
Related Topics
Dimensions
/rdbms/admin/utldim.sql
 
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