Step 4: Validating data in the staging database

Data validation helps make sure that your data is valid and ready for loading. The following list describes the validations that Planning Server performs.

Make sure that the staging database defines relationships for any foreign keys that are required.
Make sure that the dimension members and measure groups that are used in associated business rules are in the model.

Planning Server performs this validation testing before it loads data from the staging database to the application database. To perform the validation, Planning Server creates stored procedures that perform the validations in the staging database, and runs those procedures at the appropriate time.

Validation occurs automatically when you load model data from Planning Business Modeler. You can decide not to validate measure group data when you load by using the Planning Command Utility with the /novalidation switch. For more information see Scriptable data integration.

In This Section

About performing dimension data validation: Describes how to validate dimension data with the bsp_DI_ValidateDimension stored procedure.

About performing hierarchy validation: Describes how to validate the data in a specified hierarchy with the bsp_DI_ValidateHierarchy stored procedure, or how to validate the data in all hierarchies for a specified dimension with the bsp_DI_ValidateHierarchiesForADimensionstored procedure.

About performing measure group validation in a model: Describes how to validate the data in a specified measure group by using the bsp_DI_ValidateMeasureGroup stored procedure, or how to validate the data in all measure groups for a specified model with the bsp_DI_ValidateMeasureGroupForModel stored procedure.

Related Sections

Data integration overview: Provides an overview of the architecture of the Planning Server data integration system and of the data load processes.

Data integration configurations: Describes different configurations that you can use for security and performance.

Step 1: Creating the staging database: Provides background information about the organization of the staging database, and describes the steps that you must follow to create it.

Step 2: Synchronizing the staging database: Provides background information about how Planning Server synchronizes the structures and data of each database, and describes the steps that you must follow to perform synchronization.

Step 3: Populating the staging database: Describes how to prepare data and structures for data loading.

Step 5: Loading data from staging to application database: Provides background information about dimensions and models, and describes the steps that you must follow to load data.

Scriptable data integration: Describes the commands in the Planning Command Utility that you can use to write a script that performs data integration steps.

Troubleshoot data integration: Provides detailed reference information about error codes.