Best practice for building OLAP cubes??

Hi All,
I have to build about 10 cubes as minimum for 50 GB database that share some dimensions, these cubes for 6 business areas.
I want to know whether to build all cubes on one analytical workspace or what??
Regards,
Gado

If the cubes are going to share dimensions, then yes I would recommend putting them all in the same analytic workspace.

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Hello Peggy,
this is my first post but I hope it helps you anyway.
To learn the SAP "language" I additionally used the a SAP Presentation regarding the SAP JDI.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/java development infrastructure real world use webinar.pdf
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http://epic.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/nwlab/SC+Track.html
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SAP Best Practices for Building construction industry

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Is there any best practices available in the building/house construction industry? Can you please guide me through that?
Thank you.
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Yes they do
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After (project refactored to push three top-level states down into a custom component):
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Try this:
1. Select some of your arwork where you need more states. Right click and choose "Convert to Custom Component"
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3. To exit editing the component, double click a blank area on the artboard.
4. If you try creating an "On click transition to state" interaction now you will see that you can choose from both the states of the application as well as the states of the custom component.
Answered by: Ty Voliter. See entire discussion.
More help:
Video tutorial on custom components
Video/demo discussing the benefits of "pushing interactivity down" into custom components, by Ian Giblin @ MAX 2009
(jump to the 11:15 mark, and watch through to about 20:30)
Another forum post by Ty:
Here's an ASCII diagram to illustrate one way of pushing application or top-level pages/states down into a custom component:
Before:
State1     State2     State3     State4     State5     State6     State7...
After (project refactored to push three top-level states down into a custom component):
State1     State2     State3      State7...
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Custom Component
State4     State5     State6
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Dear All;
i would like to ask two questions:
1- which manufacturing category (process or discrete) fit ceramic industry?
2- what is the Best practice for ceramic industry?
please note from the below link
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hi dave,
>>Cloud Services are not Sql Server (obviously) but that led to the question - Is there a list of best practices for Azure Cloud Services? If so, what are they?
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http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CloudPowerHowToScaleAzureWebsitesGloballyWithTrafficManager.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj717232.aspxhttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/best-practices-performance/
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Are there any hard and fast rules about dimensions?
Should they be kept to a percentage of the fact table?
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Regards
Gary Boyle

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I read in one of the olap blog from experts which says that best practice for creating the calc measures is to have them in a seperate cube.
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So can I create one more cube(dedicated to calc measures) considering all the available dimensions in the AW and create the calc measures for both the cube which has different dimensionality?
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I am trying to find out what is the best practice for reporting against real time data ?
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2 - Crystal report directly against the ECC data ?
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2 - Build some interactive report on the top of these Virtual Provider within CRM
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I'm experiencing challenges, however - namely:
1) Our organization's process is that should development activities continue, the developer needs to formally check-out the production copy, compiled by the builders.
2) Eclipse build paths are relative to the computer of the developer, so references to JAR's are invalid and need to be resolved manually.
- I attempted to use a shared folder, mapped to a drive (Drive T:\) but is there any better way of making sure the correct JARs are referenced and that the references will still work after commit.
3) CVS Conflicts arise when we try to check in a project (from production) that already has a newer copy committed by a developer (bawal ito - pero for the purposes of SIT, we needed to test this case)
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801661 wrote:
1) Our organization's process is that should development activities continue, the developer needs to formally check-out the production copy, compiled by the builders.No idea what you're trying to say here.
2) Eclipse build paths are relative to the computer of the developer, so references to JAR's are invalid and need to be resolved manually.
- I attempted to use a shared folder, mapped to a drive (Drive T:\) but is there any better way of making sure the correct JARs are referenced and that the references will still work after commit.Not sure what you mean about "references still working after commit."
3) CVS Conflicts arise when we try to check in a project (from production) that already has a newer copy committed by a developer (bawal ito - pero for the purposes of SIT, we needed to test this case)No idea what you're saying here. The whole notion of "checking in from production" does not compute.
In general, however, any time two developers work on the same file, there's a chance for conflicts. Most VCSs come with a conflict resolution/merge tool.
Also we're using Eclipse Build. Is there any better process of building?An IDE's build can be fine for individual developers' intra-day builds, but for nightly builds that are to be promoted to QA or Production, you'll usually use build tool, such as ant or maven, possibly driven by another process-managing tool such as cruisecontrol.
Other than that, I'm not following exactly what your processes or problems are, so I'll just try to offer some general tips that have worked for me.
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2. The bulidmaster does a fresh checkout against the new label, and builds from there.
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5. CVS, while serviceable for simpler projects, lacks some advanced features that other VCSs have. Subversion is a pretty good free tool. It was based on CVS, I think, or at the very least, its commands are almost identical to CVS's in a lot of cases. Perforce is somewhat more feature rich, I think, but quite a bit more complex, and not free. Git is supposed to be gaining popularity, and is free I think, but I've never used it. Clearcase is very powerful, but it's also expensive, and pretty much requires a full-time admin.

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