Creating a cube using OEM

Question

I have an Oracle 10g database that has 5 tables in it. these tables are linked together through keys. Now, I am curious to know if I can create a cube with two or more dimensions based on columns from the same table, and also have the measure(s) for that cube be from the same table?? Would I need to create a view of that table and use that view as the "fact table"?
It seems like the cubes built in a lot of these samples use dimensions where each of those dimensions each come form a separate table. Does it always have to be that way?
Thanks for any input.

Answer 1

I'm not sure exactly why you want to do this.
I guess I didn't explain very clearly :)
We (i.e. the company I work for) creates software (in C++) which needs to work with a lot of data which is in an Oracle-DB.
As the analysis done by the SW would profit (performance-wise) from the layout of the data in an cube, we want to get the data in a cube.
But information like the number of dimensions isn't known beforehand (as that's sth. that's dependent on the site the customer uses the SW on, and can
change with time), the software has to do the creation of dims and the cube itself.
(For the curious ones: http://www.centerpoint.eu.com/ )
And as OLAPI isn't available for C++ (at least afaics), I'd really want to do this in PL/SQL.
If you do use standard form, you then allow yourself the
option of using the various tools later
That's really not needed :)
You can always build the original AW using
AWM, then save the build script it generates, and use
that to do subsequent builds.
Is that build-script in OLAP DML? How do I save it?
BTW, in addition to the SPL INFILE command, there is
the DBMS_AW.INFILE plsql routine, which saves you
some quotes :-).
dbms_aw.execute('infile ''work_dir/my.inf''') vs
dbms_aw.infile('work_dir/my.inf')
I hate superfluous quotes :)
Thanks Jim!