Business Information Warehouse for SAP (Prima Techs SAP Book Series)

factless fact tables, 265

facts defining, 265

fact tables, 51-52, 180, 262

accessing, 265

computed values, 265

defining tablespaces for, 111

factless, 265

foreign keys, 263

key figures, 265

number of entries in, 265

size, 265

field-level relationships between data sources and targets, 303-304

FI-GL (Financial General Ledger), 33

FI-LC (Financial Consolidation), 33

filtering data for queries, 183, 241-242

Financials module, 29

FIS (Financial Information System), 30, 32

FI-SL (Financial Special Purpose Ledger), 33

Fixed Length files, 134

flat files, 216, 224

1,000 bytes record limit, 224

ASCII data, 223

data loads, 217-229

data type, 223-224

dates, 224

defining data source, 219-220

defining metadata, 220-223

hierarchies, 218

InfoSources, 205

master data, 218, 220-222

metadata, 218

missing values, 229

processing, 123

sorting, 224

source system type, 219-220

text, 218

time, 224

transaction data, 218, 227

frontend components, 73

FrontPage, 72

function module, 287

function modules for LIS extracts, 387-390