Essbase statistics issue

Hello All,
I have migrated essbase application from 9x to 11.1.2.1. Exported the data from 9x environment & imported the same to 11.1.2.1.
Data is matching at top level but the statistics are not matching (except block size).
Can anobody specify the reason for the same.
*Note - No errors while importing & exporting.
There is a difference of 1.2e-8 difference in some data cells*
Regards

Hi,
Your source database probably contains blocks that are missing. These blocks were not exported, thus not imported, which explains the difference. So unless you have more level 0 blocks in your target database, it's perfectly fine.
I think you could try to run a restructure of your source database, it will get rid of the missing blocks.

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