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

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Chapter 6. <strong>Best</strong> practices <strong>for</strong> InfoCubes<br />

<strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> 7.0 introduces several new features <strong>for</strong> the current InfoCubes. Some of<br />

these are discussed in this chapter, along with some of the new terminology with<br />

regards to InfoCubes.<br />

This chapter covers the following areas:<br />

► Terminology changes - types of InfoCube<br />

► Repartitioning of InfoCubes<br />

► Remodeling InfoProviders<br />

► <strong>SAP</strong> compression<br />

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To start, we would like to give you a basic understanding of what an InfoCube is.<br />

InfoCubes are InfoProviders but are not necessarily data targets (they are only<br />

data targets if data is physically stored in them). By this definition,<br />

VirtualProviders (which previously were called Virtual Data Stores) are<br />

InfoProviders and not data targets. In <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> 7.0, the real-time characteristic can<br />

be assigned to a standard InfoCube. Real-Time InfoCubes (previously know as<br />

Transactional InfoCube) are used differently than standard InfoCubes.<br />

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