NetWeaver BI (a.k.a. BW) and Advanced DB Functionality (Part 3)

Part 3: In this final part of the weblog serie, I will discuss the possible use of grouping sets and loaders in the context of NW BI. As in the case of materialized views (see part 2), both constitute attractive features that could be beneficial for NW BI in theory. However, performance benefits are either not existent or so minimal that it is currently not worthwhile to seriously consider them. But let's look at some more details.