Poor Performance 7.0 Workbook with multiple queries

Hi all,
I've got the following issue. Our users have workbooks which contain serveral queries on different sheets. (One on each workbook sheet)
When a workbook contains 5 or more queries, the overall workbook performance will decrease drastically. Workbook with 8 or more queries result in time-outs and messages like unsufficient shared memory.
Does anyone have the same kind of problems with multiple queries in a Bex 7.0 workbook? Do any one have a solution?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Ron

Bill,
Tried to make a workbook according to your advise. It certainly makes a difference in workbook size. The new workbook is 50% smaller than the older version based on the standard SAP template.
However, my workbook contains 17 queries, and after 5 minutes it breaks the BW connection. So basic conclusion is that BW 7.0 workbook can't work with a large number of dataproviders/ queries. This did work in BEx BW 3.x.
If any one has any other suggestion, more than welcome.
Cheers,
Ron

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Best regards,
Sunmit.

How to implement poor-man's version control with TSQL queries

I have a table called Project. Each row completely describes a project and has a username, project name, project description and other numeric parameters that contain all the data about the project.
When multiple rows have the same username, this means a user owns multiple projects.
Now I want to implement a poor-man's version control for my users by adding a new integer column called version. When a user wants to save a new version of his project, the version is incremented and a new row is inserted into the table.
Some projects will have 1 version, others will have a dozen or more.
By default, the user should see a data grid of projects where only the latest version of the project is displayed (including the version count) and all the older versions of each project are ignored.
How do I write a TSQL query to populate this data grid (and ignore every version except the latest versions of each project)?
Thanks
Siegfried
siegfried heintze

Should this work? It prints all the rows.
DECLARE @Projects TABLE
([id] int IDENTITY(1,1), [Project] varchar(1), [Version] int)
INSERT INTO @Projects
([Project], [Version])
VALUES
('A', 1),
('A', 2),
('A', 3),
('A', 4),
('B', 1),
('B', 2),
('B', 3),
('C', 1),
('C', 2),
('D', 1)
-- DECLARE @User varchar(100)
SELECT *
FROM @Projects p
WHERE
-- UserName = @User AND
NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM @Projects q
WHERE q.id = p.id
AND q.Version < p.Version)
siegfried heintze
Nope you have condition wrong
In my suggestion i've used > and you replaced it with <
it should be this
SELECT *
FROM @Projects p
WHERE
NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM @Projects q
WHERE q.project= p.projects
AND q.Version > p.Version)
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