SAP ABAP Data Element RSDIMENSION (Dimension)

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	RSDIMENSION
Short Description	Dimension

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	RSDIMENSION
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	30
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	30
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Dimension
Medium	15	Dimension
Long	20	Dimension
Heading	10	Dimension

Documentation

Definition

A dimension is a component of an InfoCube that is built according to a so-called star schema.

While the fact table of the InfoCube contains key figures such as sales revenue and sales quantity, the dimension tabled of the InfoCube contain characteristics such as customer, product.

Due to technical (database) restrictions (maximum 16 key fields) a maximum of 16 dimensions managed per InfoCube and each individual dimension can contain a max. 249 characteristics.

There are 3 fixed, predefined dimensions:

• Data packet (cannot be maintained by the user, serves for the consist management of data in the InfoCube),
• Time (the time characteristics are stored here)
• Unit (this dimension contains the currencies and units of measure of the key figures of the InfoCube).

As a result 13 freely configurable dimensions remain at the user's disposal for the characteristics. Characteristics that are related to one another (such as product, product group, division) should be summarized in one dimension.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20130604
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