ETLs processes - Full vs Incremental loads

Hi,
I am working with a customer who already have implemented Financials Anlysis in the past, but now the requirement is to add Procurement and Supply Chain Analysis. Could anybody tell me how to the extraction of these new subject areas? could I create separate Executions Plans in DAC for each subject area or I need to create one ETL which contains the 3 areas?
Please help me! I also need to understand which is the difference between full load and incremental load, how I configure the DAC to execute either full or incremental extraction?
Hope anybody can help me,
Thanks!

In regards to your "multiple execution plan" question: I usually just combine all subject areas into a single execution plan. Especially considering the impact Financial Analytics has on Procurement and Supply Chain subject areas.
The difference between full-load and incremental-load execution plans exists mostly in the source qualifiers date-constraints. Incrmenetal execution plans will have a $$LAST_EXTRACT_DATE comparison against the source system. Full-load execution plans will utilize $$INITIAL_EXTRACT_DATE in the SQL.
A task is executed with a "FULL" load command when the last_refresh_date for that tasks target tables is NULL.
Sorry this post is a little chaotic.
- Austin
Edited by: Austin W on Jan 27, 2010 9:14 AM

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