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Introduction
Database tables of InfoCubes often contain several million records, so database operations of any nature are time-consuming for these tables. For such cases, the partitioning of an InfoCube tables is a very effective option to improve performance. With portioning, the structure of a InfoCube table in database systems will basically be defined to use a partitioning field to physically divide it into several database areas (tables, blocks, etc.). The partitioning of the tables has two advantages: Instead of having one read process that searches the complete fact table for the required information, several read processes can be executed in parallel in the individual partitions.
When the read access to the partitioning characteristic is limited, a number of partitions may be possibly excluded from the read process, so the data base will be smaller and comprehensive data will be found and read significantly faster.
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Figure 4:- Partitioning Condition If you use the Fiscal Year/period characteristic (0FISCPER) which is compounded with the fiscal year variant (0FISCVARNT) as the partition condition, then you need to use a special procedure when you partition an InfoCube using 0FISCPER. Always set the Fiscal Year Variant (0FISCVARNT) to constant in Provider-Specific properties of the characteristic 0FISCVARNT as shown in the below figures. Assign the Constant value (For Example: - K3 Cal Year, 3 Special Periods) to the Fiscal Variant to enable the partitioning based on Fiscal Year/period.
Summary
In BW 3.5 you had to setup partitions whilst the InfoCube was empty but this constraint has disappeared in BI 7.0 (for all database providers except for DB2). In 7.0 it is not only possible to partition whilst the InfoCube has data but also re-partition any existing groupings. Repartitioning can be useful if you have already loaded data to your InfoCube and you have loaded more data into your InfoCube than you had planned when you partitioned it, you did not choose a long enough period of time for partitioning or some partitions contain no data or little data due to data archiving over a period of time. You can access repartitioning in the Data Warehousing Workbench using Administration, or in the context menu of your InfoCube.
Dinesh is a SAP BI 7.0 consultant in a multinational organization and a expert in data modelling, extraction and reporting of business scenarios.
Comment on this weblog Showing messages 1 through 2 of 2. Titles Only Infocube 2011-06-23 22:32:58 priyas 78 Business Card [Reply] Very useful note, thanks can i get some more documents in BI Main Topics Oldest First
my mail id is priyas78@yahoo.com Infocube 2011-06-23 23:35:27 Dinesh V Business Card [Reply] You can go through some of my recently published articles in SAP BI 7.0. Hope they will be helpful too. Using Error Stack and Error DTPs in SAP BI 7.0 http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/40baa0dd-cc27-2e10-b590-a7488f42f4c2