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14 Physical Elements 14-1 14 Physical Elements Physical elements are typically those elements that are exposed in the Physical layer, or in other words, the elements that appear in the right-hand pane of the Administration Tool. This chapter contains the following topics: ■ Section 14.1, Database ■ Section 14.2, Physical Catalog ■ Section 14.3, Physical Schema ■ Section 14.4, Physical Display Folder ■ Section 14.5, Physical Table ■ Section 14.6, Physical Column ■ Section 14.7, Connection Pool ■ Section 14.8, Physical Key ■ Section 14.9, Physical Foreign Key ■ Section 14.10, Complex Join ■ Section 14.11, Cube Table ■ Section 14.12, Physical Dimension ■ Section 14.13, Physical Hierarchy ■ Section 14.14, Physical Level ■ Section 14.15, Cube Column ■ Section 14.16, Analytic Workspace ■ Section 14.17, AW Cube ■ Section 14.18, AW Dimension ■ Section 14.19, AW Hierarchy ■ Section 14.20, AW Level ■ Section 14.21, AW Column

14.1 Database

The database element corresponds to the database object in the Physical layer. The database tag includes the following attributes: 14-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Integrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition The database tag includes the following child elements: Table 14–1 Database Tag Attributes Attribute Name Description type The type of data source, such as XMLDirect or ODBC20. dbFlag Stores the value of the following options: ■ CRM metadata tables: For legacy Siebel Systems sources only. When selected, the Administration Tool import utility looks for the table definition in Oracles Siebel CRM-specific tables. ■ Virtual Private Database: Identifies the physical database source as a virtual private database VPD. When a VPD is used, returned data results are contingent on the users authorization credentials. This option is used with the Security Sensitive option for session variables. ■ Allow populate queries by default: When selected, allows all users to execute POPULATE SQL. If you want most, but not all, users to be able to execute POPULATE SQL, select this option and then limit queries for specific users or groups. ■ Allow direct database requests by default: When selected, allows all users to execute physical queries. The Oracle BI Server will send unprocessed, user-entered, physical SQL directly to an underlying database. If you want most, but not all, users to be able to execute physical queries, select this option and then limit queries for specific users or groups. Table 14–2 Database Child Elements Element Name Description Features Lists the SQL features for this database. Each feature is contained in a sub-element called Feature. This sub-element has two attributes: ■ name indicates the name of the feature, such as LEFT_ OUTER_JOIN_SUPPORTED. ■ value indicates whether this feature is supported by the database, or provides the actual value of the feature such as 0 for MAX_COLUMNS_IN_SELECT. PersistConnPool References the connection pool that is used as the persist connection pool, if one has been assigned. A persist connection pool is a database property that is used for specific types of queries typically used to support Marketing queries. The persist connection pool is contained in a sub-element called RefConnectionPool. DisplayFolders References any physical display folders that contain objects in this database. Physical display folders can be used to organize tables in a database. For example, all alias tables can be stored in a display folder called Alias, in addition to being present in the database. Each display folder is contained in a sub-element called RefPhysicalDisplayFolder. ConnectionPools References the connection pools for this database object. Each connection pool is contained in a sub-element called RefConnectionPool.