Appendix D. Bibliography

Books

• ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP, by Arvind Nagpal, Robert Lyfareff (ed.), and Gareth M. de Bruyn (ed.). Prima Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0761519033.

• Authorizations Made Easy 4.6A/B, by SAP Labs, Inc., Simplification Group. Johnson Printing Service, 1999. ISBN: 1893570231.

• Business Information Warehouse for SAP, by Naeem Hashmi. Prima Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 0761523359.

• SAP BW Reporting Made Easy 2.0B/2.1C, by SAP Labs, Inc., Simplification Group. Johnson Printing Service, 2001. ISBN: 1-893570-66-5.

• SAP R/3 Administrator's Handbook, by Jose Antonio Hernandez (ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0071354131.

• SAP R/3 System: A Client/Server Technology, by Rudiger Buck-Emden, Jurgen Galimow, and SAP AG. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN: 0201403501.

• The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit: Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses, Ralph Kimball. John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN: 0471255475.

BW Methodology

• ASAP for BW Accelerators can be downloaded from http://service.sap.com/bw/.

BW Online Documentation

• SAP Library: Business Information Warehouse comes with the BW installation CDs.

Helpful OSS Notes

• 0128447, "Trusted/Trusting Systems."

• 0130253, "Notes on Upload of Transaction Data into the BW."

• 0156784, "Additional Tablespaces for BW tables."

• 0175534, "Large BW-Systems and Performance of Aggregate Build."

• 0181944, "Accelerate Hierarchy Attribute Change Run."

• 0184322, "Procedure after DB Copy of BW Source Systems."

• 0184905, "Collective Note Performance BW 2.0."

• 0301192, "Procedure After Upgrading an R/3 Source System."

• 0309955, "BW Statistics in 2.0B – Questions, Answers, Errors."

• 0323323, "Transport of All Activated Objects of a System."

• 0325470, "Activities After Client Copy in BW Source Systems."

• 0325525, "Copying and Renaming Systems in a BW Environment."

• 0325839, "Considerable Increase of Tablespace PSAPODSD."

• 0327876, "MultiCube Query and Using Several Aggregates."

• 0339896, "ORACLE ERROR 14400."

• 0351163, "Creating ORACLE DB Statistics Using DBMS_STATS."

• 0356018, "Standard Transport System Activation in BW."

• 0356801, "Performance Problems Based on a Wrong Optimizer Dec."

• 0364577, "ODS: ORA-54 When Loading Data into the ODS."

• 0379736, "How Does a MultiCube Work?"

• 0384023, "Optimize Performance of ODS Objects."

• 0397403, "Aggregate Rollup Runs Slowly."

• 0399704, "Calling SAP Transactions from within the BEx Browser."

• 0408532, "Using the DBMS_STATS Package for Collecting Stats."

SAP White Papers

• "mySAP Technology for Open E-Business Integration – Overview," available at http://www.sap.com/

• "Portal Infrastructure: People-Centric Collaboration," available at http://www.sap.com/

• "mySAP Business Intelligence," available at http://www.sap.com/