BW: data mart: Can multi provider be used to make as data mart?

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First, you must understand what isData martThis is actually a broad concept.

Baidu encyclopedia said:

Data mart(Data mart)The data marketplace is a warehouse that collects data from operational data and other data sources that serve a special group of professionals. In terms of scope, data is extracted from enterprise databases, data warehouses, or more professional data warehouses. The focus of the data center is that it meets the special needs of professional user groups, in terms of analysis, content, performance, and ease of use. Users in the data center want the data to be expressed in terms they are familiar.

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In fact, in simple terms, we are all in a vegetable market. I sell apples, you sell pears, and I will also buy your pears to go home to eat, and you will also eat my apples, sometimes I will also eat my own apple, so that everyone will become buyers and sellers for each other and put them in a data warehouse, that is, the source of mutual input and output.

My database, you can take it for analysis, this is calledData mart.

SAPOfBWWhat is the explanation:THe BW system can be a source to another BW system or to itself, the ODS/cube/infoprovider which provide data to another system are called data marts.

This is more interesting, that is, myInfoproviderYou can give it to yourself or you.Datasource.SAPRight-click a model with an actual database table.

This way,8The data source at the beginning can be used, and can be used by others.Replicate.

Now let's get down to the truth,Multi providerIs it possible?Data martWhat about

ToSDNI checked it. Someone asked me, but all the replies said no.

You can only create export data sources on ODS, basic cube, PSA and Info Object.

You can not use infoset and multiprovider as data marts as they do not contain any data.

However, if you want to do this

Multi providerIt is virtual, and there is no actual table to store data. If you want to doData martTo put it in the actual table. For exampleAPD...

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