Use of Dimensions in Multiprovider?

Hi Experts,
Can any one let me know while creating Multiprovider,why we should again select the infoobjects(from sub cubes) in to Dimensions(in MP)?Is it necessary?what are the Pros and Cons of this concept?
Thanks
James

Hi James,
The dimensions have no significance in the multiprovider, since during the query execution the data is fetched from the data targets involved int he multiprovider.
What I normally do is create one dimension for each of the data provider in the multiprovider and include all the characteristic's of that data provider in that dimension. The common chars are included in the first dimension and the next dimensions will have only the chars that are unique to that data provider.
In toto the number of dimensions will be equal to or less than the data providers included in the multiprovider. The query performance will be decided based on the basic cubes dimensions and not based on the dimensions of the multiprovider.
Assign points if useful
Regards
Venkata Devaraj !!!

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Some advice from a consultant in the UK...
My discovery using AW dimensions with a datatype of ID with the OLAP_TABLE function - hopefully it will save you some time !!
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DEFINE DJ_BAND DIMENSION TEXT WIDTH 3
DEFINE DJ_INDUSTRY DIMENSION TEXT WIDTH 3
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dj_date DATE,
dj_band VARCHAR2(3),
dj_industry VARCHAR2(3),
dj_geog VARCHAR2(2),
dj_idx_curr VARCHAR2(3),
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AS DFT_DJINDEXVAL));
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and dj_industry = 'DOW'
and dj_geog = 'W1'
and dj_band = 'ALL'
and dj_idx_curr = 'USD';
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ERROR at line 1:
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CREATE TYPE DFR_DJINDEXVAL AS OBJECT (
dj_date DATE,
dj_band VARCHAR2(3),
dj_industry VARCHAR2(3),
dj_geog VARCHAR2(2),
dj_idx_curr VARCHAR2(8),
dj_index_val NUMBER);
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2 where dj_date = '06JUN00'
3 and dj_industry = 'DOW'
4 and dj_geog = 'W1'
5 and dj_band = 'ALL'
6 and dj_idx_curr = 'USD';
no rows selected
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2 where dj_date = '06JUN00'
3 and dj_industry = 'DOW'
4 and dj_geog = 'W1'
5 and dj_band = 'ALL'
6 and dj_idx_curr = 'USD ';
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06JUN00 ALL DOW W1 USD 238.563007
06JUN00 LRG DOW W1 USD 261.824481
06JUN00 MID DOW W1 USD 200.667549
06JUN00 SML DOW W1 USD 183.01086
06JUN00 TOP DOW W1 USD
06JUN00 LOW DOW W1 USD
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This is obviously not ideal. A possible solution is to define another view and query this instead:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW DFV_DJINDEXVAL AS SELECT
dj_date,
dj_band,
dj_industry,
dj_geog,
rtrim(dj_idx_curr) dj_idx_curr,
dj_index_val
FROM DFV_DJINDEXVAL_OT;
The following query gives me what I want:
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2 where dj_date = '06JUN00'
3 and dj_industry = 'DOW'
4 and dj_geog = 'W1'
5 and dj_band = 'ALL'
6 and dj_idx_curr = 'USD';
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06JUN00 ALL DOW W1 USD 238.563007
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06JUN00 MID DOW W1 USD 200.667549
06JUN00 SML DOW W1 USD 183.01086
06JUN00 TOP DOW W1 USD
06JUN00 LOW DOW W1 USD
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nice piece of sourcr
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n arraySure,
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LS,
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