About Dense & Spare

Hi,
I am new to Hyperion Planning. Please anyone help me to explain the below things?
1) How Dense & Spares are storing in Cube(I have referred the ESSBASE guide, but difficult for me to understand the concept in depth)
My understanding:
Spare - Index
Dense - Data Blocks
What are the main difference between Index & Data blocks? Please explain...
While writing the calculation scripts, how to handle this?
Is there any book or document explain detail in about trouble shooting the calculation script with examples. In C & C++ language, there is lot of trouble shooting book for understanding the syntax and functions, is there any things is available for ESSBASE.
Thanks in advance

Hello,
the dense / sparse subject and its impact on calculation performance is too wide to answer in a forum. There are training courses and many documents on the internet that deal with this subject. There are also books for sale which cover this subject.
On both you can use a search engine for the internet.
Regards,
Philip Hulsebosch.

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1- Simply stated, allows for another boot volume should the need for it ever arise. Having a bootable clone already, it may not be necessary, if you are comfortable with your current backup scheme. Some (including myself) like to keep multiple boot volumes. I maintain three of each OS (4 different OS's).
Another pro; new drives are often much better performers than older drives, and having the system on the new drive could help system performance.
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2-Only if the old drive provides adequate space for intended use. Again, if the old drive is relatively antiquated, cloning to the new drive, and using it for boot volume could increase performance.
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16/01/2008 17:32:53 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Starting pre-backup thinning: 157286.40 TB requested (including padding), 270.35 GB available
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16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
16/01/2008 17:44:48 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Backup Failed: unable to free 157286.40 TB needed space
16/01/2008 17:44:49 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[326] Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume."

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I had to reset my N97 to factory standards and I uninstalled the latest version of maps .I think it is 3.03. Now I am trying to reinstall it, but it tells me I don't have enough memory. I have 14.3mb free in phone memory. is there a way to uninstall the 3.01 version? I have tried and failed. I don't know what else to delete.
Thanks, kim
Solved!
Go to Solution.

If you've done a reset I would have expected about 45meg spare on C ! You should be able to remove maps from Installed applications in the Application manager, would also recommend you remove any other app installed on C before loading the latest maps, which should be 3.04 !!
Before doing this try soft reset dial*#7370# followed by 12345, phone will reset nad you should have over 40 meg on C (just backup contacts and calender first NOTHING ELSE !!)
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