Understanding the Active Catalog

OLAP processing depends on a data model composed of cubes, measures, dimensions, hierarchies, levels, and attributes. Standard form metadata defines the logical model within analytic workspaces. Views of this metadata are commonly referred to as the Active Catalog, because they are populated with information that is automatically generated within analytic workspaces.

Active Catalog views provide information about standard form objects in all analytic workspaces accessible to the current user.

The Active Catalog views are named with the ALL_OLAP2_AW prefix.