Partition in production

Question

Hi guys,
  is it advisable to partition in production or do we need to transport the partitioning too...
if so how any help
your help will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Hi
Partitions in BW are of 2 types Logical Partitioning & Table (DB) Partitioning.
Following are the pros n cons of both
Logical Partitioning
1.     Pros
i.      Requires Multi-cube for an enterprise wide view
ii.      Multi-cubes facilitate parallel processing
iii.      Can be used in conjunction with database partitioning
iv.      Reduces the size of InfoCubes
1.     Cons
i.      Requires additional development (multi-cube, transitioning queries to multi-cubes)
ii.      Requires a change in existing documentation
iii.      Data model changes have to be implemented on each base data target
iv.      Challenging to keep all base target in sync
Database Partitioning
1.     Pros
i.      Partitioning Pruning for Query run-time
ii.      Improvement on query performance
iii.      InfoCube Compression by combining all requests into 1 request
1.     Cons
i.      The performance gain is only achieved for the partitioned InfoCube if the time dimension of the InfoCube is consistent. This means that with a partition using 0CALMONTH, all values of the 0CAL x characteristics of a data record have to match in the time dimension.
ii.      Limited ways to delete data since compression has occurred (Selective deletion or DBA manual deletion)
so u have to choose depending on ur requirement
And u have to do the Partition in production it cannot b transported
-Transaction SPRO (IMG)
-Business Information Warehouse > Links to Other Systems > Maintain Control Parameters for the Data Transfer
-  OR Transaction RSCUSTV6
Hope this helps to solve ur question
Sonal...