how much temporary disk space is needed to create a PowerCube?
The calculation of the amount of space need to build a PowerCube can only be roughly approximated and is based on the number of categories, number of measures, and number of records in the input source. It is important to understand the size of the cube to ensure how much disk space will be needed for the cube and working files. There are three phases during the cube build where temporary files are created. Data Read Phase: Where Transformer imports the data from the transactional sources. The amount of space required is directly based on the amount of data being referenced in the datasource. Metadata Update Phase: Where transfomer goes through the files created during the Data Read Phase and copies metadata to a new file. The amount of space is based on the number of categories and measures in the cube. This is usually a relatively small size. Data Update Phase: Data from the files created during the Data Read Phase are processed. Additional space is created to allow for sorting and p
