Hi all, stumbled upon this and was wondering if anyone had seen something similar. This all came up in trying different ways to implement filters across the different BO tools (Analysis, Universe, Explorer, Lumira).
The core observation is that there seems to be a difference in the Explain plan for a given Analytic View when using a WHERE clause vs. using a variable (with the PLACEHOLDER technique). However, I am not seeing a performance difference in the query results.
What I was expecting to see was a BwPopSearch operation to filter out records a given attribute occurring in both of these. I only observed it in the WHERE clause statement.
Do variables/parameters not appear as visible within the Visualize plan? Again, these have the same runtimes, so I have to believe there is a filter pushdown/search happening somehow.
PARAMETER Example
SELECT
Table__1."KUNNR",
Table__1."KUKLA",
Table__1."MATNR_T",
sum(Table__1."SALES")
FROM
"_SYS_BIC"."Main.Analytics.Sales/AN_INTEGRATED_SALES"
(PLACEHOLDER."$$VAR_SIG$$" => 'MDSG') Table__1
GROUP BY
Table__1."KUNNR",
Table__1."KUKLA",
Table__1."MATNR_T"
No PopSearch
WHERE clause Example
SELECT
Table__1."KUNNR",
Table__1."KUKLA",
Table__1."MATNR_T",
sum(Table__1."SALES")
FROM
"_SYS_BIC"."Main.Analytics.Sales/AN_INTEGRATED_SALES" Table__1
WHERE
Table__1."SALE_ITEM_GROUP_ID" = 'MDSG'
GROUP BY
Table__1."KUNNR",
Table__1."KUKLA",
Table__1."MATNR_T"
PopSearch occurs
