2004s Statistics Help

Question

Friends -
I have activated all 0TCT content for new BI statistics.  I find that with this new content it is very difficult to find some information that was very easily accesible with 3.5 content. 
For example, I would like to see query and cube usage information.  In 3.5 their were standard queries to see how frequently a cube or any object was used.  In addition there was a standard query to determine when a query was last used.
Should I be using the 0BWTCT content in conjunction with 0TCT.  I though 0TCT replaced old content - now I am wondering if I am supposed to use both. 
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Friends -
I have developed a method for determining cube usage.  It is not a simple as with the 3.5 stats. 
I am using the data manager statistics.  I have modified BC Query - 0TCT_MC03_Q02.  I chose to look at the data manager stats so that I could get cube usage.  I.E. if a query is run against a multiprovider, I wanted to see the underlying cube usage.  In many cases when a query is executed against a multiprovider only a subset of the cubes in that MP are used.  That is the granularity that I captured my interest. 
In the rows column of  the query I included:
PartProvider 0TCTPARPROV  (This gives the basic cube used)
InfoProvider 0TCTIFPROV (This gives the multiprovider name that was used)
Query Step 0TCTSTEPUID (This provides the query that was executed - you have to include this level of granularity to obtain a count of how many queries were executed, because there is not a key figure that represents the number of executions)
In the rows area I inlcuded:
Rec., trans. from DB 0TCTNDBTRA (Records transferred from the DB.  I chose this because in many cases in a poorly written query against the multiprovider, the query may actually select from a cube but not return any records - because multiprovider pruning etc. has not been applied.  I chose to determine an execution against a cube as any query that returned records from the selection)
Count # Records trans. > 0  (Here I just simply included a count variable to count 1 for every record where the records tranferred was > 0)
With the above query I was able to determine the number of query executions that returned records from the DB for each cube and the related multiprovider if one exists.  What you don't get from this query is cubes that were never used.  So, I took the list from above and combined it with a list of all existing cubes to get the clear picture of used an unused.
This is not a great solution, it required manual effort and is probably not 100% accurate.  It seems to be such a basic question - I am not sure why SAP decided to remove the valuable query that was provided with earlier statistics.
Hope this helps.  If anyone comes up with a more elegant solution, I would love to hear about it....
Cheers-