1. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS is a registered trademark or trademark of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or Trademarks of their respective companies. Designing SAS 9.1 OLAP Structures for Optimum Performance and Scalability Stuart B. Levine Principal Consultant SAS Institute, Rockville, MD

2. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. The SAS Intelligence Value Chain The SAS Intelligence Value Chain is a framework for delivering consistent, quality enterprise intelligence, emphasizing the incremental value that each component brings and the additional value gained from these components being integrated.

3. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. The SAS Intelligence Value Chain : Intelligent Storage SAS Capabilities n Designed with BI and analytics in mind n Address multiple types of use Business Value n More timely answers n Various methods of accessing information

4. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Key Points n Ongoing considerations from Version 8 Requirements and Design n New considerations for SAS 9.1 Hardware Data Sources Options for Build and Query Performance, Data Storage n Performance Reporting - ARM Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

5. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Ongoing Considerations – V8 or SAS 9.1 n Requirements Gathering Data and Data Issues Reporting needs n OLAP Database Design ‘Non-Display’ aggregations or crossings Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

6. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. New Considerations for SAS 9.1 - Hardware n Disk Configuration(s) n I/O Channels n Disk Space n Memory and Memory Usage Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

7. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. New Considerations for SAS 9.1 – Data Sources n Single Table (DATA=) or Star Schema (FACT=) n Dimension Tables (DIMTBL= for Star Schemas) n Aggregation Tables (TABLE=) Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

8. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. New Considerations for SAS 9.1 – Data Storage n NO HOLAP as known Why HOLAP in v8? What can SAS 9.1 do? -How cubes are built -Supported MDX functions -Partitioning of data -Use data stored elsewhere Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

9. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. New Considerations for SAS 9.1 – New Options n MAXTHREADS= n CONCURRENT= n INDEXSORTSIZE= n INDEX / NOINDEX n PARTSIZE= Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

10. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. New Considerations for SAS 9.1 – More New Options n DATAPATH= n INDEXPATH= n COMPRESS / NOCOMPRESS n NO_NWAY Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

11. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Performance Monitoring n ARM – Applications Response Management n Used to answer or help with: Cube Optimization/Query Performance Server Load Cube Metrics User Behavior/Application Analysis Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

12. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Performance Monitoring – ARM Process Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

13. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Performance Monitoring - ARM n Enabling ARM ARMLOC option ARMSUBSYS option n Processing ARM Logs %ARMPROC macro %ARMJOIN macro Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

14. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. The SAS Intelligence Value Chain The SAS Intelligence Value Chain is a framework for delivering consistent, quality enterprise intelligence, emphasizing the incremental value that each component brings and the additional value gained from these components being integrated.

15. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Questions? Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

16. Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. About the Speaker Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Stuart B. Levine Principal Consultant SAS Institute Inc. 111 Rockville Pike, Suite 1100 Rockville, MD 20850 Work Phone: (301) 838-7030 ext. 3363 Fax: (301) 838-7409 Stuart.levine@sas.com