Assigning Dimensions

Hi Friends,
If I have 20 chars in my cube, what is the thumb rule and good practise to assign Dimensions??
please help.
thanks alot

Hi,
1. All Characteristics in the Dimensions should have 1:n Relationship .
2. Characteristics which has M:N relationship can exist , if then cartesian product is not huge...i,e master data of A * Master Data of B is not Huge.
3. If Dimension has single Chracteristic it is better to Assign to Line Item dimension .
4. If size of dimension is greater than 20% of Fact table size , then make it Line item dimension .
Assign Points if helps....
Regards,
VIjay.

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points will be assigned..:)

Arun Kumar,
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2. Select the characteristics you need
3. Select the identification criteria
4. Select Dimensions and assign characteristics
Arun Varadarajan
Message was edited by: Arun Varadarajan

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HI,
This mainly depends on the reporting requirements you have. If you want to do better on the reporting performance since the requirement is on the two cube with more number of characteristics. While design the cube take only those char which are useful for reporting. Group the char in dimension as per the reportign requirements like the two char collectively used in a query can be used in one dimension.
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the primary keys from various dimension tables link up at the fact table and to the values stored in it
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N Kumar

Hi,
You will need to take it out of maintenance mode which only allows admins to log in and set planning to allow all users.
Have a read here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/html_hp_admin/ch09s02s05.html
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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OR
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Hi Soniya,
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MultiProvider so that you can filter by InfoProvider.
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results.
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