Lori Vanourek

Product Management SAP NetWeaver / BI

Mike Eacrett
SAP NetWeaver RIG - BI
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Query Performance
Aggregates
OLAP Cache
Pre-Calculation
Data Load Performance

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Overview of the EDW layers…

Operational Data Store

•Operational Reporting
•Near Real-Time / Volatile
•Granular
•Built with ODS Objects &
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Persistent Data Warehouse Multidimensional Models

Storage Area •Non-volatile
•Multidimensional analysis
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•Built with InfoCubes
objects •Built with ODSODS
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Materialization of aggregated subsets of InfoCube fact
table data
Independent structures where summary data is stored
within separate, transparent InfoCubes
Benefits
Transparency: Users do not notice if aggregate is hit
or not
Improved query performance by reducing the amount
of data to be read from DB
Aggregates can be created …
Only on top of basic InfoCubes
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For dimension characteristics
For navigational attributes Note: Aggregates can
On hierarchy levels improve query
performance
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considerably, but keep
SAP BW 3.x)
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dependent (as of SAP BW 3.x) performance.

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Global OLAP Cache in SAP BW 3.x

Session- and user-independent
Stores Query Results
In application buffer
In cluster table or flat file (highly compressed)
Benefit
Complete query results with virtually no DB table access as of the
second call of the query
Re-use
For equal queries or subsets of cached query results
Invalidation
OLAP Cache and actual InfoProvider data always in-sync
Invalidation of cache entries e.g. after transaction data load,
master data load/change run, meta data change
Strategy
Warm-up OLAP Cache via reporting agent/Information
Broadcasting

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Data Load Performance

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