http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/04/04/using-the-sparsity-advisor-in-oracle-olap-10gr2/ Delivered Intelligence Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/04/04/using-the-sparsity-advisor-in-oracle-olap-10gr2/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Mark Rittman » New Sparsity Advisor within AWM 10.2.0.3 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:14:24 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/04/04/using-the-sparsity-advisor-in-oracle-olap-10gr2/#comment-760 [...] I covered the PL/SQL Sparsity Advisor earlier in the year, but at the time it was fairly tricky to run and now the functionality has been incorporated directly into Analytic Workspace Manager. What both these things do - AWM is just a GUI front-end for the PL/SQL version - is works out for you which of your dimensions are sparse, which are dense, and it recommends the order that you should list the dimensions, something that can have a fairly significant influence on the time it takes to load and query your cube. [...] [...] I covered the PL/SQL Sparsity Advisor earlier in the year, but at the time it was fairly tricky to run and now the functionality has been incorporated directly into Analytic Workspace Manager. What both these things do – AWM is just a GUI front-end for the PL/SQL version – is works out for you which of your dimensions are sparse, which are dense, and it recommends the order that you should list the dimensions, something that can have a fairly significant influence on the time it takes to load and query your cube. [...]

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