Orphan Management Policy for Dimensions

The orphan management policy in OWB enables you to manage orphan records in dimensions and cubes. An orphan record is one that does not have a corresponding, existing parent record.

Orphan records can occur when:

• A record that is loaded into a dimensional object does not have a corresponding parent record.

• A record is deleted from a dimensional object. This could result in the child records of the deleted record not having an existing parent record.

OWB enables you to specify a different orphan management policy for loading dimensional data and removing dimensional data.