ABSTRACT
A well-designed database that requires a high degree of manual interaction, whether that be to update the outline, to import and export data, or to run and verify calc scripts, is still incomplete. Manual processes tend to degrade in quality over time as they become rote, boring maintenance steps. Quality suers and documentation is not kept up to date. Worst of all, knowledge of those processes and how they get done (indeed of their very existence) may live only in the head of a single person. is is why no cube is complete until it is highly automated, and neither is a developer until automation techniques are mastered.
