SAP BW Useful Tables

Listing of commonly used tables in SAP BI and to understand the way data is stored in the backend of SAP BI Listed below are some of the tables commonly used in SAP BI ( NW 2004) - however the same has not been tested in NW2004s a nd please make corrections if required. required. Some of this material has gone t hrough a lot of eyeballs before making it to the final list and could contain some older references / incorrect incorrect references , however most of th em have been validated. Transfer Structure RSTS

Transfer Structure List 

RSTSFIELD

Transfer Structure fields

RSTSRULE S

Transfer Structure rules

RSAROUTT

Text name of Transfer Transfer Routine

DD03T

Text for R/3 Transfer structure Objects

Update Rules RSUPDROU T

Update rules List 

RSUPDD AT

Update rules with routines

RSUPDKE Y

Update rule key fields

RSUPDINFO

InfoProvider to Infosource correlation

Embedded ABAP coding for Transfer / Update Rules RSAABAP

ABAP source code per object routine

InfoPackage RSLDPIO

Links datasource to infopackages

RSLDPIOT

InfoPackage Text Description

RSLDPRU LE

ABAP source code for InfoPackages

RSLDPSEL

Hardcoded selections in InfoPackages

RSMONICDP

Contains the request-id request-id number by data target 

RSPAKPOS

List of InfoPackage Groups / InfoPackages

ProcessChain RSEVENTCH AIN

Event Chain Processing Event Table

RSEVENTH EAD

Header for the event chain

RSEVENTH EADT

Header for the event chain

RSPCCHAIN

Process chain details

RSPCCHAINAT TR

Attributes for a Process Chain

RSPCCHAINEVE NTS

Multiple Events with Process Chains

RSPCCHAINT

Texts for Chain

RSPCCOMMANDLO G

System Command Execution Logs (Process Chains)

RSPCLOGCHAIN

Cross-Table Log ID / Chain ID

RSPCLOGS

Application Logs for the Process Chains

RSPCPROCES SLOG

Logs for the Chain Runs

RSPCRUNV ARIABLES

Variables for Process Chains for Runtime

RSPC_MONITOR

Monitor individual process chains

Q ueries

RSZELTDIR

Directory of the reporting component elements

RSZELTTXT

Texts of reporting component elements

RSZELTXREF

Directory of query element references

RSRREPDIR

Directory of all reports (Query GENUNIID)

RSZCOMPDIR

Directory of reporting components

RSZRANGE

Selection specification for an element 

RSZSELECT

Selection properties of an element 

RSZELTDIR

Directory of the reporting component elements

RSZCOMPIC

Assignment reuseable component InfoCube

RSZELTPRIO

Priorities with element collisions

RSZELTPROP

Element properties (settings)

RSZELTATTR

Attribute selection per dimension element 

RSZCALC

Definition of a formula element 

RSZCEL

Query Designer: Directory of Cells

RSZGLOBV

Global Variables in Reporting

RSZCHANGES

Change history of reporting components

Workbooks RSRWBINDEX

List of binary large objects (Excel workbooks)

RSRWBINDEXT

Titles of binary objects (Excel workbooks)

RSRWBSTORE

Storage for binary large objects (Excel workbooks)

RSRWBTEMPLAT E

Assignment of Excel workbooks as personal templates

RSRWORKBOOK

Where-used list for reports in workbooks

Web templates RSZWOBJ

Storage of the Web Objects

RSZWOBJTXT

Texts for Templates/Items/Views

RSZWOBJXREF

Structure of the BW Objects in a Template

RSZWTEMPLATE

Header Table for BW HTML Templates

InfoObject RSDIOBJ

Directory of all InfoObjects

RSDIOBJT

Texts of InfoObjects

RSDATR NAV

Navigation Attributes

RSDATR NAVT

Navigation Attributes

RSDBCH ATR

Master Data Attributes

RSDCHA BAS

Basic Characteristics (for Characteristics,Time Characteristics, and Units)

RSDCHA

Characteristics Catalog

RSDDPA

Data Package Characteristic

RSDIOBJCMP

Dependencies of InfoObjects

RSKYF

Key Figures

RSDTIM

Time Characteristics

RSDUNI

Units

InfoCube RSDCUBE

Directory of InfoCubes

RSDCUBE T

Texts on InfoCubes

RSDCUBEIOBJ

Objects per InfoCube (where-used list)

RSDDIME

Directory of Dimensions

RSDDIMET

Texts on Dimensions

RSDDIMEIOBJ

InfoObjects for each Dimension (Where-Used List)

RSDCUBEMU LTI

InfoCubes involved in a MultiCube

RSDICMULTIIOBJ

MultiProvider: Selection/Identification of InfoObjects

RSDICHAP RO

Characteristic Properties Specific to an InfoCube

RSDIKYFPRO

Flag Properties Specific to an InfoCube

RSDICVALIOBJ

InfoObjects of the Stock Validity Table for the InfoCube

 Aggregates RSDDAGGR DIR

Directory of Aggregates

RSDDAGGR COMP

Description of Aggregates

RSDDAGGR T

Text on Aggregates

RSDDAGGL T

Directory of the aggregates, texts

ODS Object RSDODSO

Directory of all ODS Objects

RSDODSOT

Texts of all ODS Objects

RSDODSOIOBJ

InfoObjects of ODS Objects

RSDODSOAT RNAV

Navigation Attributes for ODS Object 

RSDODSOT ABL

Directory of all ODS Object Tables

PSA RSTSODS

Directory of all PSA Tables

DataSource (= OLTP Source) ROOSOURCE

Header Table for SAP BW DataSources (SAP Source System/BW System)

RODELTAM

BW Delta Procedure (SAP Source System)

RSOLTPSOUR CE

Replication Table for DataSources in BW

InfoSource RSIS

Directory of InfoSources with Flexible Update

RSIST

Texts on InfoSources with Flexible Update

RSISFIELD

InfoObjects of an InfoSource

Communications Structure RSKS

Communications Structure for InfoSources with Flexible Update

RSKS

Communications Structure (View) for Attributes for an InfoSource with Direct Update

RSKSFIELD

Texts on InfoSources with Flexible Update

RSISFIELD

InfoObjects of an InfoSource with Flexible Update

Transfer Structure RSTS

Transfer Structure in SAP BW

ROOSGEN

Generated Objects for a DataSource (Transfer Structure, for example in SAP Source System)

Mapping RSISOSMAP

Mapping Between InfoSources and DataSources (=OLTP Sources)

RSOSFIELDMAP

Mapping Between DataSource Fields and InfoObjects

InfoSpoke RSBSPOKESELSET

InfoSpoke Directory and Selection Options

RSBSPOKEVSELS ET

InfoSpoke Directory with Selection Options and Versioning

RSBSPOKE

List of all InfoSpokes with attributes maintained with transaction RSBO which include the name of  the Source & T arget Structures

RSBSPOKET

List of all InfoSpokes with the Short & Long Descriptions (only one of these can be maintained).

RSBSTEPIDMESS

Contains all the messages that have been recorded during the execution of an InfoSpoke. This table can be added to using the ABAP Class/Method i_r_log->add_sy_message.

SAP BW Statistics RSDDSTA T

Basic Table for InfoCubes/Queries

RSDDSTA TAGGR

Detail Table for Aggregate Setup

RSDDSTA TAGGRD EF

Detail Table of Navigation for each InfoCube/Query

RSDDSTA TCOND

InfoCube Compression

RSDDSTA TDELE

InfoCube Deletions

RSDDSTA TWHM

Warehouse Management 

Misc RSFEC

BW Frontend Check. Useful for checking the installed SAP GUI versions on user machines.

RSSELDONE

InfoPackage selection and job program, there in field UPDMODE the update status (INIT/DELTA/FULL)

RSPSADEL

PSA Table deletion

TBTCP

Job Schedule Definition

TBTCO

Job Schedule Result 

RSMONMESS

Monitor Messages

RSERRORLOG

Check loading errors in table

 

V_RSZGLOBV

Report Variables view table

DEVACCESS

Developer Keys table

TSTC

All Transactions in the system

RSDDAGGR DIR

Directory of the aggregates

ROIDOCPRMS

Control parameters for data transfer from the source system

SMEN_BUFFC

Objects in User's Favorites

TSTCT

Transaction Codes with Text 

DD03L

field names and corresponding data element names

DD03LT

Description of each data element 

DD02L

All SAP Defined Table Names

DD02LT

Description of All SAP Defined Table Names

Web Item RSZWITEM

Header Table for BW Web Items

RSZWMDITEM

BW Web Metadata: Template Item ( Dataprovider, Item, ... ).

RSZWITEMXREF

Cross Reference of Web Items

RSZWMIMEIOBUFFER

Buffer for Translation MIME Rep. to IO

RSZWOBJ

Storage of the Web Objects

RSZWOBJTXT

Texts of Templates/Items/Views

RSZWOBJXREF

Structure of the BW Objects in a Template

RSZWTEMPLATE

Header Table for BW HTML Templates

 Archiving RSARCHIPR O

BW Archiving: General Archiving Properties

RSARCHIPR OIOBJ

BW Archiving: General Archiving Properties

RSARCHIPR OLOC

BW ARchiving: General Local Properties

RSARCHIPR OLOCSEL

BW Archiving: Archived Data Area

RSARCHIPR OPID

BW Archiving: Program References of InfoProvider

RSARCHR EQ

BW Archiving: Archiving Request 

RSARCHR EQFILES

BW Archiving: Verfified Archive Files

RSARCHR EQSEL

BW Archiving: Request-Selections

Open Hub Destination RSBOHSERVICETP

Open Hub: Service Types

RSBREQUESTD ELTA

Open Hub: Cross Reference Outbound/Inbound

RSBREQUESTMES S

Open Hub: Log for a Request 

RSBREQUID

Open Hub: Requests

RSBREQUID3RD

Open Hub: Status of 3rd Party Requests

RSBREQUIDRU N

Open Hub: Table with Status for a Request 

RSBSTRUCT URE

Open Hub: Generated Structures and Tables

BW Glossary, Definitions & Explanations  A  Aggregate  An aggregate is a subset of an InfoCube. The objective when using aggregates is to reduce I/O volume.The BW OL AP processor se lects an appropriate aggregate during a query run or a navigation step. If no appropriate aggregate exists, the BW OLAP processor retrieves data from the original InfoCube instead. For examples, assume you may have 10 dimensions and each one have 10 value, that means you may have up to 10^10 possible records. If high level manager often access the report focus revenue in 2008 by customer, that's mean only 2 dim ension are involved. You can do aggregate and it may only conta in 2 dimensions with 100 rec ords. It reduce the I/O an d improve the performance.  Aggregate rollup  Aggregate rollup is a procedure to update aggregates with new data loads. Reference Aggregate  Application component  Application components are used to organize InfoSources. They are similar to the InfoAreas used with InfoCubes. The maxim um number of  characters allowed for the technical name is 32.  Authorization  An authorization defines what a user can do, and to w hich SAP objects. For example, a user with an authorization can display and execute, but  not change, a query. Authorizations are defined using authorization objects.  Authorization o bject  An authorization object is used to define user authorizations. It has fields with values to specify authorized activities, such as display and execution, on authorized business objects, such as queries. The max imum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 10.  Authorization profile  An authorization profile is made up of multiple authorizations. The m aximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 10.

B BE x Short for Business Explorer. It includes following tools to present the reports to end user: Analyzer / Web Application Designer / Report Designer  / Web Analyzer. Bitmap index  A bitmap index uses maps of bits to locate records in a table. Bitmap indices are very effective for Boolean operations of the WHERE clause of a SELECT statement. When the cardinality of a column is low, a bitmap index size will be small, thereby reducing I/O v olume.  Another possible choice in BW on this topic is B-tree index. Business Content Business Content is a complete set of BW objects deve loped by SAP t o support the OLAP tasks. It contains roles, workbooks, queries, InfoCubes, key figures, characteristics, update rules, InfoSources, and extractors for SAP R/3, and other my SAP solutions.  You can simply use business content directly, or take it as tem plate for your project to speed up implementations. BW

Business Warehouse (BW) is a D ata Warehousing solution from SAP. When we talking about BW, it often talking about BW3.5. The latest version is SAP Business Intelligence 7.0. BW Mo nitor BW Monitor displays data loading status and prov ides assistance in troubleshooting if errors occur. T-code: RSMO BW Scheduler BW Scheduler specifies when to load data. It is based on t he same techniques used for scheduling R /3 background jobs. BW Statistics BW Statistics is a tool for recording and reporting system activity and performance information. BWA / BIA BW/BI Accelarator is a tool that improves the performance of BW 7.x queries on InfoCubes. It enables quick access to any data with a low amount  of administrative effort and is especially useful for sophisticated scenarios with unpredictable query types, high data volume and high frequency of queries

C Cache / OLAP Cache  A technology to improve the p erformance. Cache buffers query result data, in order to provider them for further accesses. Cache Mode Determines whether and in what way the query result and navigational states are to be saved in the OLAP Cache. Change run Change run is a procedure used to activate characteristic data changes. Characteristic Characteristics are descriptions of fields, such as Cu stomer ID, Material Number, Sales Representative ID, Unit of Measure, a nd Transaction Date. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 9. Client  A client is a subset of data in a n SAP system. Data shared by all clients is called client-independent data, as compared with client-dependent data. When logging on to an SAP system, a user must specify which client to use. Once in the system, the user has access to both cl ient-dependent  data and client-independent data. Communication structure The comm unication structure is the structure underlying the InfoSource. Compound attribute  A compound attribute differentiates a characteristic to m ake the characteristic uniquely identifiable. For example, if the same characteristic data from different source systems mean different things, then we can add the compound attribute 0SOURSYSTEM (source system ID) to the characteristic; 0SOURSYST EM is provided w ith the Business Content. Compress Compressing will bringing data from d ifferent requests together into one single request (request ID 0) in Infocube. When you load data into Infocube, they are group with Requests ID. You can easily manage the data with Request ID. But the request ID have disadvantages cause the same data record (with same characteristics but different request ID) to appear more than once in the fact table. It  waste the table space and affects query performance.  You can eliminate these d isadvantages by compressing data and bringing data from different requests together into one single request (request  ID 0). Technically, Compress will move the data in F table to E table and aggregate the records with same char. automatically. It is widly used when you are sure that t he data in InfoCube is correct and you won't need Request ID in the future. And be careful if you defined your own delta mechanism.

D Data packet size For the same amount of data, the data packet size determines how work processes will be used in d ata load ing. The smaller the data packet size, the more work processes needed.You can set it in SPRO Data Mining Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. It is one of the function provided by SAP BI. Take the most famous story "beer and diapers" as example. Wall-Mart noticed that men often bought beer at the same time they bought diapers. They mined its receipts and proved the observations. So they put diapers next to the beer coolers, and sales skyrocketed. The story is a myth, but  it shows how data mining seeks to understand the relationship between different actions. Data Warehouse Data Warehouse is a d edicated reporting and analysis environment based on the star schema (Extended) database design technique and requiring special attention to the data ETTL process. DataMart The distribution of contents of ODS or InfoCube into other BW data targets on the same or on other BW systems DataSource  A DataSource is not on ly a structure in which source system fields are logically grouped together, but also an object that contains ETTL-related information. Four types of DataSources exist: DataSources for transaction data DataSources for c haracteristic attributes DataSources for characteristic texts DataSources for c haracteristic hierarchies

If the source system is R/3, replicating DataSources from a source system will create identical DataSource structures in the BW system. T he maximum numb er of characters allowed for a DataSource's technical name is 32. DB Connect  A BW function that offers flexible options for extracting data directly into the BW from tables and views in database m anagement systems that are connected to the BW in addition to the default connection. You can use tables and views from the database management systems that are supported by SAP to transfer data. DataSources are used to make data known to the BW, where it is then processed in the same way as dat a from all other sources. Delta Caching  Additional requests will be read from the InfoCube's (F) fact table. These additional requests will be updated into the OLAP Cache. In this way, when they are changes t o the data basis, the complete data for the query no longer has to be read from the database again. Delta update The De lta update option in the InfoPackage definition requests BW to load only the data that have been accumu lated since the last update. Before a delta update occurs, the delta process must be initialized. Development class  A development class is a group of objects that are logically related. Dimension table Part of the Star Sche ma structure for InfoCubes. Dim t ables contain pointers to the Fact tables & to t he Master Data (SID tables). Display attribute  A display attribute provides supplemental information to a characteristic. Reference Na vigation attribute Drill-down Drill-down is a user navigation step intended to get further detailed information. For example, you can drill-down to detail report through free characteristic DSO Short for Data Store Object. Reference ODS in BW3.5  A DataStore object serves as a storage location for consolidated and cleansed transaction data or master data on a document (atomic) level. This data can be evaluated using a BEx query.  A DataStore object contains key fields (such as document n umber, document item) and d ata fields that, in addition to key figures, can also contain character fields (such as order status, customer). The data from a D ataStore object can be updated with a delta updat e into InfoCubes (standard) and/or other DataStore objects or master data tables (attributes or texts ) in the same system or across different systems. There are 3 kinds of DSO: Standard DataStore Object / Write- Optimized DataStore Objects / DataStore Objects for Direct Update. Check the definition and example at: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/f9/45503c242b4a67e10000000a114084/frameset.htm DTP The Data Tran sfer Process (DTP) transfers data from source objects to target objects in BI 7.x. You can also u se the data transfer process to access InfoProvider data directly. Prerequisite: a transformation to define the data flow between th e source and t arget object.

E EDW The Enterprise Data Warehouse, a c omprehensive / harmonized data warehouse solution, is design to avoid isolated applications. Reference BW330. ETTL ETTL, one of the most challenging tasks in building a data w arehouse, is the process of extracting, transforming, transferring, and loading data correctly and quickly. Also known as ETL. Extraction Structure The data structure used by the e xtraction program to extract data. Its fields are mapped t o the fields of the SAP Source S yst em D ataSource.

F Fact tables The Fact table is the central table of the InfoCube. Here ke y figures & pointers to the dimension tables are stored. There are two fact tables: the F-fact table and the E-fact table. If you upload data into an InfoCube, it is always written into the F-fact table. If you compress the data, the data is shifted from the F -fact table to the E-fact table. The F-fact tables for aggregates are always empty, since aggregates are compressed automatically. After a changerun, the F-fact table can have entries as well a s when you use the functionality 'do not compress requests' for  Aggregates. E-fact table is optimized for Reading => good for Queries. F-fact table is optimized for Writing => good for Loads Free charac teristic  A free characteristic is a characteristic in a query used for drill-downs. It is not displayed in the initial result of a query run. Full update The Full update option in the InfoPackage definition requests BW to load all data that meet t he selection criteria specified via the Select data tab. Reference Delta update Filter Filter is used to restrict data to a certain business sector, product group, or time period. And these can be saved and reused in the in othercontexts. Here the data is filtered and showed in the intial result of the query.

G Generic data extraction Generic data extraction is a function in Business Content that allows us to create DataSources based on database views or InfoSet queries. InfoSet is similar to a view but allows outer joins between tables. Granularity

Granularity describes the level of detail in a data warehouse. It is determined by business requirements and technology capabilities. For high level reports, manager tend to high aggregated report such as by month or by BU. But operational reports always require more detail information such as by day or by product spec.

H High Cardinality means that this dimension contains a high number of attributes. This information is used to execute physical optimizations, depending on the database platform. For example, different index types from those in a standard case are used. Generally, a dimension has a high ca rdinality if the number of dimension entries is 20% (or more) of the number of fact table entries.

I IDoc IDoc (Intermediate Document) is used in SAP to transfer data between two systems. It is a specific instance of a data structure called the IDoc Type, whose processing logic is defined in the IDoc Interface. See: IDOC Basics Index  An index is a technique used to locate needed records in a d atabase table quickly. BW uses two types of indices: B-tree indices for regular database tables and bitmap indices for fact tables and aggregate tables. InfoArea InfoAreas are used to organize InfoCubes and InfoObjects. Each InfoCube is assigned to an InfoArea. Through an InfoObject Catalog, each InfoObject is assigned to an InfoArea as well. The maximum numb er of characters allowed for the t echnical name is 30. InfoCube  An InfoCube is a fact table and its associated dimension tables in the star schema. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30. InfoCube compression InfoCube compression is a procedure used to aggregate mu ltiple data loads at the request level. InfoObject In BW, key figures and characteristics are collectively called InfoObjects. See: https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BI/Characterstic+and+Key+FiguresCharacteristic and key figures InfoObject Catalog InfoObject Catalogs organize InfoObjects. Two types of InfoObject Catalogs exist: one for characteristics, and one for key figures. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30. InfoPackage  An InfoPackage specifies when and how to load data from a given source system. BW generates a 30-digit code starting with ZPAK a s an InfoPackage's technical name. InfoSource  An InfoSource is a structure in w hich InfoObjects are logically grouped together. InfoCubes and characteristics interact with InfoSources to get  source system data. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 32. In BW 3.5 it is a MUST and in BI 7.0 it is optional. The difference: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/a4/1be541f321c717e10000000a155106/content.htm  And the Recommen dations for Using InfoSources in BI 7.0: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/44/0243dd8ae1603ae10000000a1553f6/content.htm Information Lifecycle Mangement Generally, the data was generated in OLTP system such as R/3. In BW, Information Lifecycle Management includes data target management and data archiving. Reference ADK a nd archiving for more information. And online help: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/d0/84e5414f070640e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

K Key figure Key figures are numeric values or quantities, such as Per Unit Sales Price, Quantity Sold, and Sales Revenue. The ma ximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 9. R eference Characteristic.

L Line item dimension  A line item dimension in a fact table connects directly with the SID table of its sole characteristic. When you creating a InfoCube, you have chance to use this feature on define dimension. It is only possible if exactly one characteristic in a dimension. It help to improve the performance because we do not need to join SID table when accessing the m aster data. Logical system  A logical system is the name of a client in an SAP system.

M Metadata Repository Metadata repository contains information about the m etadata objects of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, important object properties and their relationships with other objects. Metadata contains data about data. Multi-cube  A multi-cube is a union of basic cubes. T he multi-cube itself does not contain any data; rather, data reside in the basic cubes. To a u ser, the multi-cube is similar to a basic cube. When creating a query, the user can select characteristics and key figures from different basic cubes.

N Navigational attribute

 A navigational attribute indicates a characteristic-to-characteristic relationship between two characteristics. It prov ides supplemental information about a characteristic and e nables navigation from characteristic to characteristic during a query. The naming convention for a navigational attribute is: InfoObject_Attribute, such as 0customer_0country Number range  A number range is a range of numbers that resides in application server memory for quick num ber assignments.

O ODS ODS is a BW architectural component located between PSA and InfoCubes that allows BEx reporting. It is not based on the star schema and is used primarily for detail reporting, rather than for dimensional analysis. ODS objects do not aggregate data as InfoCubes do. Instead, data are loaded into an ODS object by inserting new records, updating existing records, or deleting old records, as specified by the 0 RECORDMODE value. Reference DSO. Open Hub Service The open hub service enables you to d istribute data from an SAP BW system into external data marts, analytical applications, and other applications. OLTP / OLAP Short for Online Transaction Processing / Online Ana lytical Processing. OLTP system are Transacton-Orientated, which means it is generally used to support the daily operation. For example, SAP R/3, ERP / P DM / MES ... OLAP is generally used to analysis data. For examples, SAP BW, D DS - De cision Support System, EIS - Executive information systems.

P Parallel query  A parallel query uses m ultiple database processes, when available, to execute a query. Partition  A partition is a piece of physical storage for database tables and indices. If the needed data reside in one or a few partitions, then only those partitions will be selected and examined by a SQL statement, thereby significantly reducing I/O volume. It can be done in Cube or DB level. The benefit of using partition is mainly focus on: Well balanced partition / fragments Improve read performance Fast of delete partition by "Drop" instead of "Delete from where" Fact table can be partitioned over a time characteristic either 0CALMONTH or 0FISCPER(Fiscal year/period). Repartition is possible in SAP BI 7.0. See https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/N4C4AQRepartitioning Partitioning Type For MultiProvider queries, Partitioning Type provides options for handling the data that is returned by the individual InfoProviders from the MultiProvider separately and saving it in the cache separately. No Partitioning: All results of the InfoProviders are summarized as one re sult and cached. Partitioning in Groups: Infocubes in one group, and other infoproviders are saved together in groups acc ording to their properties. Partitioning in Groups: Basis Cubes Se parate: similar as above. individual Infocubes are saved separately. Each InfoProvider Separate: All InfoProviders are saved separately. Process Chain  A process chain is a sequence of processes that are scheduled to wait in the background for an e vent. You can include process c hains in other process chains to manage a group of them, known as meta chains. It is design at the implementation phase and one of the m ost important jobs in support and maintenance phase. More information please reference: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8f/c08b3baaa59649e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm Profile Generator Profile Generator is a tool used to create authorization profiles. PSA The Persistent Staging Area (PSA) is a data staging area in BW. It allows us to ch eck data in an intermediate location, before the data are sent to its destinations in BW.

Q Q uery

 A BW query is a selection of characteristics and key figures for the analysis of the data in an InfoCube. A query refers to o nly one InfoCube, and its result is presented in a BEx Excel sheet. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30.

R Read mode Read mode determines how often the OLAP processor reads data from the database during navigation. Read all data Read during navigation Read during navigation & expanding hierarchy Reconstruct Reconstruct is a procedure used to restore load requests from PSA. Request  A request is a data load request from BW Scheduler. Each time that BW Scheduler loads data into a n InfoCube, a unique request ID is created in the data packet dimension table of the InfoCube. RFC

RFC (Remote Function Call) is a call to a function module in a system different from the caller's usually another SAP system on the local network. Role In Profile Generator, an authorization profile corresponds to a role. A user assigned to that role also has the corresponding authorization profile.  A user can be assigned to m ultiple roles. The maximum num ber of characters allowed for the technical name is 30. Reclustering It allows you to change the c lustering of Infocubes and Data store objects that already contain data.

S SID SID (Surrogate-ID) translates a potentially long key for an InfoObject into a short four-byte integer, which saves I/O and mem ory during OLAP. Source system  A source system is a protocol that BW uses to find and extract data. When the source system is a non-SAP system, such as a flat file or a third-party tool, the maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 10. When the source system is an SAP system, e ither R/3 or BW, the technical name matches the logical system name. Th e maximum num ber of characters allowed for the technical name is 32. Star schema  A star schema is a technique u sed in the data warehouse database design to help data retrieval for online analytical processing. SAP BW use extended star schema with following advantage compare to classical star schema: Use of generated key (short number) for faster access External hierarchy Multi-language support  Master data are separated. It is common to all cubes Support slowly changing dimensions  Aggregates in its own tables for faster access Statistics For a SQL statement, many exec ution plans are possible. The database optimizer generates the most efficient execution plan based on either the heuristic ranking of available execution plans or the cost calculation of available execution plans. Statistics is the information that the cost-based optimizer uses to calculate the cost of available execution plans and se lect the most appropriate one for execution. BW uses the cost-base optimizer for Oracle databases. System Administration Assistant System Administration Assistant is a collection of tools used to monitor and analyze general system operation conditions. System landscape The system landscape specifies the role of each system and the paths used in transporting objects among the various systems.

T Time-dependent entire hierarchy  A time-dependent entire hierarchy is a time-dependent hierarchy whose nodes an d leaves are not time-dependent. For example, you have two hierarchy which presents organization of company in 2007 and 2008. Time-dependent hierarchy structure  A time-dependent hierarchy structure consists of nodes or leaves that are time-dependent, but the hierarchy itself is not tim e-dependent. For example, you have one hierarchy but one of his node was changed from 200 7 and 2008. HR may belong to administration division before 2007 and be long to supporting division after 2008. Transfer rule Transfer rules specify how DataSource fields are mapped to InfoSource InfoObjects. In BI 7.0, transfer rule and update rule are replaced by transformation. Transfer structure  A transfer structure maps DataSource fields to InfoSource InfoObjects. Transformations (TRF) TRFs connect source objects (DataSources, DSOs, InfoCubes, InfoSets) to Data Targets (InfoProviders) of a data-staging process. They replace combination of transfer rules & update rules. The TRF process allows you to consolidate, cleanse & integrate data. You must u se DTP to load data to InfoProvider.

UVWXYZ Update rule  An update rule specifies how data will be updated into their targets. The data target can be an InfoCube or an OD S object. If the update rule is applied to data from an InfoSource, the update rule's technical name will match the InfoSource's technical name. If the update rule is applied to data from an ODS object, the update rule's technical name will match the ODS object's technical name prefixed with number 8. In BI 7.0, transfer rule and update rule are replaced by transformation. But we still have chance to use it in BI 7.0  Variable  A variable is a query parameter. It gets its value from user input or takes a default value set by the variable creator.  Variables act as placeh olders for: Characteristic v alues Hierarchies Hierarchy nodes Texts Formula elements  Virtual InfoProvider

 A Virtual Provider is a type of InfoCube where the data is not managed in BI. Only the structure of the VirtualProvider is defined in BI, the data is read for reporting using an interface with another system. Workbook  A BW workbook is an Excel file with a BEx query result saved in BDS. BW a ssigns a 25-digit ID to each workbook. Users need merely name a workbook's title.

relation between BEx Tables Most of the times, we are confused while debugging any query for getting where used list, for writing codes where query relations need to be required. We always think if we know the relation between them, our work is done. This linking of the SAP BW tables help to meet multiple requirements.Some of which are: --> Find Where Used List  ---> Find List of queries restricted on the particualr value. --> Find the queries list where selection is used etc. This can be obtained by using the relationship as shown in the diagram below:

List of Important Query Related Tables RSZELTTXT

Texts of reporting component elements

RSZELTXREF

Directory of query element references

RSRREPDIR

Directory of all reports

RSZCOMPDIR

Directory of reporting components

RSZELTDIR

Directory of the reporting component elements

RSZELTDIR

Directory of the reporting component elements

RSZRANGE

Selection specification for an element 

RSZSELECT

Selection properties of an element 

RSZCOMPIC

Assignment reuseable component InfoCube

RSZCALC

Definition of a formula element 

RSZCEL

Query Designer: Directory of Cells

RSZELTPRIO

Priorities with element collisions

RSZGLOBV

Global Variables in Reporting

RSZELTATTR

Attribute selection per dimension element 

RSZCHANGES

Change history of reporting components

RSZELTPROP

Element properties (settings)