Hello,
I have a workflow that needs to be repeated every month and I'd like to optimize it.
1. DB table in SQL Server 2008 looks something like this:
TABLE [CONTRACTS_GCO_LVL2](
[CONTRACTS_BP_ID] [varchar](50),
[Flag 1] [int] ,
[Flag 2] [int] ,
[Flag 3] [int] ,
...
2. I bring this table into my BOE IDT 4.0.3 and drag it into object folder. All INT columns become dimensions. This is not what I want. These are 1/0 flags for me and I need them to be measures with SUM aggregation.
3. I select all these INT sourced dimensios and right click on them with "Turn into measure with aggregation function - SUM"
The problem is that step #3 is unbelievably slow. I need to spend hours doing this as I have thousands of these flags. I end up selecting all dimensions from one screen and converting them at the same time. This takes 4-5 minutes. IDT runs on a Win 2008 R2 Enterprise server with 32 GB RAM and 4 CPUs.
In Universe Designer there used to be external strategies that allowed some customization of how the objects get automatically created from DB tables. I know there are no strategies in r4 (External strategy for tables) but is there anything else to make this process faster?
Thank you all!
Natasa