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Step By Step: the Process of
Selective Deletion from a DSO
Applies to:
SAP NetWeaver BW. For more information, visit the EDW
homepage.
Summary
Selective deletion from DSO refers to deleting specific values
from a DSO leaving the other values unaffected. These values are
deleted based on specific variables like Calendar Date, Account No.
etc.
Author: Shyam Uthaman
Company: Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
Created on: 20 January 2011
Author Bio
Shyam is working as a SAP BI Consultant in Accenture Services
Pvt. Ltd. He has an experience of 7 months in SAP BI.
He has worked on 3 support and 1 development project in SAP BI
simultaneously till date.
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Table of Contents
Document Objective
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Document Detail
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Data Store Objects (DSO) An Overview
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Selective Deletion Process
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An Illustrated Example
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Related Content
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Disclaimer and Liability Notice
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Document Objective
The objective of this document is to provide a step by step
overview of the Selective deletion process from a DSO (Data Store
Object). Every step has an associated screenshot for better
understanding of the topic.
Document Detail
Data Store Objects (DSO) An Overview
A DataStore object (DSO) serves as a storage location for
consolidated and cleansed transaction data or master data on a
document (atomic) level.
This data can be evaluated using a BEx query.
A DataStore object contains key fields (such as document number,
document item) and data fields that, in addition to key figures,
can also contain character fields (such as order status, customer).
The data from a DataStore object can be updated with a delta update
into InfoCubes (standard) and/or other DataStore objects or master
data tables (attributes or texts) in the same system or across
different systems.
Unlike multidimensional data storage using InfoCubes, the data
in DataStore objects is stored in transparent, flat database
tables. The system does not create fact tables or dimension
tables.
Selective Deletion Process
Selective deletion from DSO refers to deleting specific values
from a DSO leaving the other values unaffected. These values are
deleted based on specific variables like Calendar Date, Account No.
etc.
An Illustrated Example
In the example taken in this document, all values associated
with Product Code P00001 on the Calendar date value 25.03.2003 are
to be deleted from the DSO.
The DSO we will be using has the technical name DSO_SHY and the
description as my DSO.
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The following is a screenshot that shows the fields in the DSO
along with their associated values.
Now, for selective deletion, go to the DSO and select Manage
after right-clicking the DSO.
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You will get the following screen. Go to the contents Tab.
The screenshot of the Contents tab is given below. Before
deleting, let us check out the number of records in the DSO
pertaining to the Date and Product code values. For that, Click on
Active Data
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Input the values on the fields pertaining to which you want to
do the selective deletion operation to be performed. In this
example, as mentioned before, it will be done based on Product Code
P00001 and Calendar Day 25.03.2003. Press Number of Entries button
after doing this.
The number of entries will be shown as in the screenshot
below.
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Now, press the back button to go back to the contents tab Coming
back to the selective deletion process, press the Selective button
in the contents tab.
You will get the following window. Press Deletion Selections to
select values on the fields pertaining to which you want to do the
selective deletion operation to be performed
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You will get the following screen. Input the values in the
aforementioned fields and press execute.
This will take you back to the original window. But this time
the Deletion Selections Button will have Green tick sign before it.
This shows that the selection process is complete. Now we need to
schedule the deletion, Press the Selection button to do this.
You will get the following window. In this example we will
schedule it immediately. Else, you can also give the time when the
deletion should happen. Press the radio button for Immediate
Start
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After selecting Immidiate Start, you will be directed back to
the same window we saw before but this time with a green tick which
on the Selection button, which as we saw before in the previous
case, shows that the Job Scheduling is done. Now to start the
deletion process press the Start button.
You will get the following screen press Yes to confirm the
deletion.
The Start button will remain grayed out as long as the deletion
is being carried out in the background. This time depends on the
number of data records being deleted.
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Keep pressing the Refresh button repeatedly until the Start
Button becomes active again. This confirms that the job is finished
as shown below.
Now to verify that the data has been deleted, go back to the
Contents tab in the DSO manage option
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Here, Press the Active data button to get the following familiar
window we saw earlier. Input the values which we used earlier. Now,
Press the Number of Entries button.
The following window verifies that all the Selective Deletion
Process was successful and the targetted records have been deleted.
In short, a job well done
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Related Content
DataStore Object
Selective Deletion in a DSO
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1794489
For more information, visit the EDW homepage.
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