Even fans of MDX like me will agree that it isn’t the most aesthetically pleasing language, so it’s painful to see it made more convoluted than strictly necessary. This post is a grumble about a piece of redundant syntax that appears far too often, and has really begun to grate…
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Why BSO Disk Space doesn’t follow Block Density
When choosing which BSO (or Hybrid) dimensions to make dense and which to make sparse, a higher block density is generally considered ‘better’. This is a simplification, as the densest combination isn’t always the best performing, but bear with me. The point I want to make and explain in this post is this:
When using bitmap compression, squeezing a given set of data into a denser arrangement doesn’t always result in a space saving of the same magnitude
This isn’t totally intuitive, and it can come as surprise to see that your huge increase in block density has only made a modest dent in the size of your .pag files.