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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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► <strong>SAP</strong> Analyze Tool<br />

This new query analyze tool is explained in 8.5, “<strong>SAP</strong> Query Analysis Tool” on<br />

page 178.<br />

► Repartitioning of InfoCubes and DSO objects<br />

This is discussed in 6.2, “Repartitioning of InfoCubes” on page 78, and 7.4,<br />

“Partitioning and clustering” on page 108, respectively.<br />

► Remodelling of cubes<br />

See 6.3, “Remodeling InfoProviders” on page 89.<br />

2.6 Terminology: <strong>BI</strong> objects and processes<br />

Here we review some terminology.<br />

► InfoProvider<br />

In <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>, objects that can be analyzed are called InfoProviders. There are<br />

two classes of InfoProviders: those that contain physical data (such as<br />

InfoObjects, InfoCubes, and DSO objects) and those that do not (such as<br />

InfoSets, RemoteCubes, and MultiProviders).<br />

► MultiProvider<br />

A MultiProvider provides access to data from several InfoProviders and<br />

makes it available <strong>for</strong> reporting and analysis.<br />

► Aggregate<br />

A materialized, summarized view of the data in an InfoCube, this data can be<br />

read directly from the database during query execution without having to be<br />

built at run time.<br />

► Roll-up<br />

This is the process of loading new data packets from an InfoCube into an<br />

existing aggregate.<br />

► Condense<br />

This refers to <strong>using</strong> a program to compress the contents of an InfoCubE- fact<br />

table.<br />

► SQL efficiency<br />

This refers to a method to simplify the analysis of a query against an<br />

InfoCube, as described in Chapter 6, “<strong>Best</strong> practices <strong>for</strong> InfoCubes” on<br />

page 73.<br />

Chapter 2. Overview of <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> and related data 27

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