Data Block Renumbering

Essbase renumbers data blocks in a block storage database when you add or make changes to sparse dimensions.

Essbase renumbers the data blocks when you make any of these changes:

  • Move a sparse dimension

  • Add a sparse dimension

  • Change a dense dimension to a sparse dimension

  • Move any member in a sparse dimension

  • Delete any member in a sparse dimension

  • Add a member to a sparse dimension