SQL Drill through??

I am new to the Essbase world. We have a few business requirements that requires us to report on a flat measure (it does not make sense to be a part of the cube as it can not be aggregated across dimensions) along with other measures from the cube. We were thinking about doing a drill through to relational db.We do not have integration server installed. The server options on the Application manager indicate that we have SQL Drill through & SQL interface options. But what I am not sure is how to specify a measure as drill through & how would I be able to drill through a specific relational table. Could some one tell me if I can do this without HIS? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,Nithya

with vba, you can easily issue a sql query on a relational data source base and have the results placed in it's own sheet. (for free)look under ado (access data objects) in programming references for vba or vb.If you have any vb programmers in house, they could set something up for you in minutes.This is an often overlooked method of retrieving relational information based on the multidimensional criteria from an Essbase report.howard314-406-4022

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