BWA 7.2 RKF and CKF

Ongoing from Jamie Hylton's thread...
If we had BWA with the blades configured for both SBOE and BW access - in what scenario does BW access actually get to use the "query snapshot" functionality?
We read that BWA 7.2 comes with RKF and CKF but as far as I see - this only applies to the CKFs and RKFs in the query snapshot load for SBOE and not for normal BW access
Or did I read wrongly?

Hi
You can use BWA 7.20 with BW 7.01 SP05 and the indexing RKF and CKF functionalities are supported only with this combination of BWA and BW and finally reporting in Explorer.
Also as Marc has mentioned the exploring of data with the Infoproviders having RKF and CKF is possible only in Explorer.
The CKF and RKF as part of Multiprovider Snapshot Index can also be used to explore the data in the Explorer.
c.f note : 1332392.
Hope this helps!
Regards, Hyma
Edited by: Hymavathi Yanamadala on Mar 16, 2010 1:16 PM

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Business Intelligence Journal Improving Query Performance in Data Warehouses
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Achieving BI Query Performance Building Business Intelligence
http://www.dmreview.com/issues/20051001/1038109-1.html
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