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New Datasource: SAP Data Lake
Customers in DACH-Region are mainly driven by SAP. SAP Cloud is increasingly being used by customers. SAP data and non-SAP data is stored there. It is necessary to read and write data from SAP Data Lake. Connect to Data Lake Relational Engine Using the .NET Driver
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Probably The Best Alternative to CSV Storage: Parquet Data
1. What is your idea? Board support a lot of datasources. Probably the most used are csv files. However, with ever increasing amounts of data, working with csv files becomes a pain. Parquet files can be an alternative. Head-to-head comparison CSV Parquet Row-based storage format. A hybrid of Row-based and column-based…
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Add option to set all 'Modes' in a Data Reader to 'Add New Item' automatically
Hi, I think it'd be useful and efficient a have a button to switch all the modes automatically from 'Discard New Item'/'Read' to 'Add New Item'/'Replace'. This would be very useful in new data models or when loading a new entity/hierarchy as you do not have to manually change the mode for each field area in the data…
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Temporary DataReader in Procedures
Hello together, to reduce the number of DataReaders, it would be helpful if DataReaders can be created temporarily in a procedure. This would also significantly increase flexibility in combination with temporary cubes. Best regards Christoph S.
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Transferring data directly from one database to another
Situation: Assume that planning takes place in different databases for various reasons. Now the results of the planning are to be merged into one database. One possibility is to extract the data from the planning databases into a CSV and read it back into the reporting database. Request: It would be nice to have a function…
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Smart Import Enhancement
The last releases contained a lot of news about the Smart Import Object. The functions that the object now brings with it are great. Still, I would like to see two more features: moving columns (without having to rename and remap columns every time a new column is added in between. if rows are rejected, it would be great…
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Extract Cubes in Parquet-File
1. What is your idea? Board has multiple steps to extract data from cubes: Extract Cube Export Data View to file Export Dataset Extract all cubes All these steps save data as text or csv-files. We could save disk-space and increase performance by using parquet-files. Head-to-head comparison CSV Parquet Row-based storage…
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How to manage cloud tasks from on premise server - Orchestrator
Hello community i'm going to move to cloud and I know it's now possible execute a board procedure through an API call. Since I have various tasks to copy files to/from the cloud, to be synchronyzed with Board procedures, I would evaluate possible solutions to manage processes that combines batches to transfer files (with…
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How to hide/ignore columns of an Excel data source when using the Smart Import Object
Is it possible to hide/ignore columns of an Excel data source if they are not relevant for the import when using the file upload of the Smart Import Object (e.g. descriptions or comments)? In the following table, columns A,B (entities) and D,E (values) have to be imported, columns C,F have to be ignored.
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Data Load Guidelines
1. Abstract While developers are focused on data model creation and data integration, they need to remember that in addition to the data model structure, they have to fill this structure with data. Entities and Cubes have to be filled with meaningful data to be seen by the users. This document provides a standardized…
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Data Transformation
1. Abstract The data transformation process can be done in three different ways: 1. with SQL transformations directly in the data source or in the Data Reader Object 2. with the out-of-the-box Board ETL function 3. after the data has been imported into Board by using the dataflow engine. The type and number of data sources…