Data values """""""""""""silly question """""but i need to know

Question

hi,
When we load the data in essbase
like
jan 2009 sales 700(700= data values)
2009 goes to year
Jan goes to period
sale = account
where does 700 go and sit in essbase

Answer 1

Based on your original post, I think you may be thinking of Essbase as more similar to relational storage than it really is.
For example, you say: '2009 goes to year'. In a relational database, this makes sense. You might have a table with the fields 'Year', 'Period', 'Account' and 'Value'. When you load the particular piece of fact data in your example, '2009' sits in the 'Year' field. In a multidimensional cube, all intersections (combinations of one member from each dimension) are potential data storage locations. A cube doesn't store '2009' in 'Year' - it stores +700+ in '2009'! Thanks to your metadata - the outline - '2009' already exists as a potential data storage location before you load any data.
The Essbase Database Administrator's Guide has a section titled 'Understanding Multidimensional Databases' which may help.
Of course, if you already know all this and you're simply asking about where the data values are physically stored in the Essbase cube implementation, then I think Srinivas has answered your question - for a BSO cube it's in the .pag files under /app/appname/dbname/.