Logical Partioning doubts

Question

Hi gurus,
Logical partioning is used to create additional cubes to load yearly data.
My small questions are
1) In the process chain after one year infopackage will be same with delta update type and cube name will change is it right ?
2) This will be done on first day of new year I mean first delta will be loaded of the new year like 2008 with the same process chain but different into cube name .
3) Old cube name wll be there till it loads last delta of year last day ?
4) If report is only for single year all data and I have 4 cubes with quarterly data for that single year under a multiprovider .will the performance come down ?
Thankyou gurus.

Answer 1

Hi George:
1) That is possible. see also under 2
2) You can also create a filter in the update rules. Add you new cube to the info package and filter the records in the update rules (start routine, delete from info package where date = etc.) In this case you can implement the new cube some weeks before the new year and remove the old cube after a few weeks (at the moment you are sure no records of the previous year are changed)
3) then you can also remove the old cube from the info package and remove the update rules.
4) We implemented queries about single year data on the cubes directly (easy to copy as the cube are equal and then renaming the query with yaer in the name) and queries over more than one year on the mutli cube. (actually we made two mutlicubes (1 with current and last year and 1 with all the years)
Udo