SAP ABAP Data Element RSDHIGH_CARD_CHA_UI (Characteristic with high cardinality (more than 2 bio recs.))

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BW (Software Component) SAP Business Warehouse
   ⤷ BW-WHM-MTD (Application Component) Metadata (Repository)
     ⤷ RSD (Package) BW: Data Basis InfoObjects and Core Services

Basic Data

Data Element	RSDHIGH_CARD_CHA_UI
Short Description	Characteristic with high cardinality (more than 2 bio recs.)

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	XFELD
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	High Card.
Medium	20	High Cardinality
Long	30	High Cardinality
Heading	40	High Cardinality

Documentation

Definition

Use

Only use the High Cardinality option if you expect that the SID number range of 2 billion will not be sufficient. Otherwise create the characteristic without the high cardinality property.

If the High Cardinality property is set, the characteristic does not have persistent SID values or an SID table. This implies that it can only be used in InfoProviders that store the key value and not the SID value of the contained characteristics.

Restrictions:

High cardinality characteristics cannot be used

• in InfoCubes
• as a compounding parent
• as a navigation attribute
• in hierarchies

The high cardinality property is only supported for data type CHAR and NUMC with length >= 10.

Dependencies

During reporting, SID values need to be created as local SIDs as required. Therefore the response times of queries might be impacted.

Example

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20141013
SAP Release Created in	740