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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” So said Douglas Adams, the famed author of such hits as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we are not famous authors and most of us don’t have the luxury of letting our deadlines lapse. Our […]
In this article, we’re going to switch attention away from the BEx Analyzer and focus on the BEx Query Designer. First, I will give an overview of where the BEx Query Designer fits into the SAP BW landscape, taking a look at the System Architecture to understand how reports are created and where they can […]
There are certain types of people that somehow make an appearance at every office. One of them is the Negative Guy (or Girl, but we’ll use Guy for the sake of simplicity). He’s the one who always has something bad to say. If management hands down an assignment, project, procedure, or rule, he will find […]
Working with Database Tables Making a Copy of a Table This article will look at ways in which one can change the transparent tables created earlier. It is important to know how to do this, and the implications of adding and taking away fields for the underlying data in a database table. Let’s take a […]
Not everyone wants to start their own business, and who can blame them? It can be a pain more often than not – long hours, hiring and managing employees, managing a budget and expenses, dealing with vendors and customers. For many, working for someone else saves them from having to focus on areas that don’t […]
Introduction When I was first putting this book together, I was wondering what the best sequence would be to teach you about BW reporting. I say that because there are two elements involved: creating queries and running these queries in order to analyse your data. First of all, this article will introduce the BEX Analyser […]
Can you explain how your car works? For many people, the explanation would be something like this: “I open the door, sit down in the driver’s seat, and I turn the key in the ignition. The engine starts up. I put my foot on the brake pedal, then I put the car in drive. I […]