How to maximize report script performance

Question

I have a report script that takes a while to run. Basically the script is zooming into 3 sparse dimensions and 1 dense dimension. <BR><BR><BR>The dense dimension has 732 stored members.<BR><BR>The sparse dimensions have 92, 280 and 576 members respectively. <BR><BR>when I did the zoom bottom in excel, it only took me about 4 minutes total to zoom in through the whole thing. <BR><BR>But when I did it in the report script, it ran for about half an hour and then I had to killed it. <BR><BR>I tried to change the order of the rows in the report script to match the zoom order in my excel retrieval, but that didn't help. <BR><BR>i remember from the bootcamp that the report script zoom in order should follow the hourglass or something. i can't remember exactly which dimension should go first though, was it the biggest dense and then the smallest sparse and then the biggest sparse dimensions? <BR><BR>here is how the script looks like:<BR><BR>{Rowrepeat}<BR>{SUPFEED}<BR>{Pagelength 10000}<BR>{Supemptyrows}<BR>{Supzerorows}<BR>{supcolheading}<BR><BR><ROW ("REV AND COST CENTERS", ENTITY, ACCOUNTS, ALLOCATION)<BR><BR><LINK (<descendants ("local currency entities") or <descendants (historical) <BR>or <children(celerops) OR <CHILDREN (CRAOPS) OR <DESC (ONLINEOPS) OR <DESC (PARACELOPS) OR <DESC (DSCIEOPS) OR <DESC (DSERVOPS) OR <DESC (EXCAPOPS) or <CHILDREN (GENERAL) OR AND <DIMBOT (ENTITY))<BR><BR><LINK (<descendants (statistical) or <descendants ("net income") or <DESCendants ("pre-assessment expenses") AND <LEV(Accounts,0))<BR><BR><LINK (<DESC("SGA") OR <DESC ("R&D AND ENG.") OR <DESC ("OTHER CC") AND <LEV ("REV AND COST CENTERS",0))<BR><LINK (<descendants ("direct") or <descendants ("indirect") or <descendants ("manual indirect") <BR>or <children ("allocation") and <lev(allocation,0))<BR><BR>!<BR><BR>any suggestions would be appreciated. <BR><BR>thx.

Answer 1

<p>For improving the retreival performance put the most densedimension on top followed by least dense dimension members,followedby most queried sparse dimension members followed by least sparsedimension members.....For improving calcualtion performance theorderof sparse dimension members changes while that of densedimension members remain same.</p><p> </p><p>Other thing which you can do is to increase the size ofretreival buffer.</p>