Does this mean that they refer to functionality that won't
ever be implemented (i.e. reserved for future use but later 
a decision was made that they weren't needed) or just have't 
been done yet.  

If I create dimension, fact or bwhierarchy tables I can see 
flags appearing in DOMAIN.BWTABLES on the entries.

It occurs to me that data marts might be a niche market for
SAP-DB where the savings on server licencing would be a sig-
nificant part of the total cost of implementation (at least
on simpler ones such as sales/BI analysis apps).  A simple
web-based OLAP browser (this dimension on X, that dimension
on Y - run query - click on column/row to drill down) would
be fairly easy to write in any of the scripting languages.

Nigel.



-----Original Message-----
From: Zabach, Elke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 4 August 2003 7:19 p.m.
To: Nigel Campbell (DSL AK); [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: DIMENSION column descriptor


Nigel Campbell wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me what the DIMENSION descriptor on a column does and
> how it works.  Presumably it's to mark a column as being a 
> dimension column
> on a fact table, but the documentation doesn't say what doing 
> this actually 
> achieves and I can't find code samples anywhere.  Can anyone 
> enlighten us 
> about this?  Is it deprecated?  If not, what does it do?
> 
> Similarly, there are a few other data-warehouse-ish keywords (FACT, 
> BWHIERARCHY) that appear in the keywords list but aren't 
> described in the 
> documentation.  Are these current and, if so, what do they do?

Forget them all, they are/were meant for future use.

Elke
SAP Labs Berlin
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