When you process a cube on the Analysis Server, either manually or using a schedule, you have the option of choosing full processing or incremental processing.
You should use full processing whenever structural changes have been made to the cube. Structural changes include:
Deleting Meridium Enterprise APM records that will delete Members from a Dimension.
Updating Meridium Enterprise APM records that will result in changing Member names.
Rearranging levels or adding and deleting dimensions.
You can use incremental processing whenever you want to update the cube based on the most recent data, as long as changes to the data do not have any affect on the structure of the cube.
Note that when full processing is performed, Metric Views will become inaccessible to users who are currently logged in to the Meridium Enterprise APM and have already accessed the Views. Users will need to restart the Meridium Enterprise APM application to access Views after a cube has been processed using full processing, if they are logged in at the time the processing occurred. Meridium Enterprise APM does not need to be restarted when incremental processing is used.
Therefore, if you are scheduling cubes for processing and need to use the full processing option, you should schedule the processing so that it occurs at a time when users are not using the Meridium Enterprise APM system. If you are scheduling cubes that are unlikely to change, you can use incremental processing and schedule the processing to occur at any time.
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