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# Understanding Cubes

A cube is an OLAP Catalog metadata entity. This means that it is a logical object, identified by name and owner, within the OLAP Catalog.

A cube is a multidimensional framework to which you can assign measures. A measure represents data stored in fact tables. The fact tables may be relational tables or views. The views may reference data stored in analytic workspaces.

Use the procedures in the `CWM2_OLAP_CUBE` package to create, drop, and lock cubes, to associate dimensions with cubes, and to specify descriptive information for display purposes.

You must create the cube before using the `CWM2_OLAP_MEASURE` package to create the cube's measures.

See Also: Chapter 18, "CWM2_OLAP_MEASURE" Oracle OLAP Application Developer's Guide for more information about cubes and the OLAP Catalog metadata model.