I find myself including the same data in almost all of my reports (Customer, Vendor, Material, Date, Plant, etc) and was wondering if there was a way to publish Each one of these datasets/datasources individually and then consume the published datasets when creating a new report.
For example If I create reports/model for sales, billing, and produciton orders then each one of these share common data (Material). When I publish these to the cloud and upload the data I'm essentially loading the same sets of data multiple times (50K materials for each report). I don't need 3 copies of my materials in the cloud (Same with customer, vendor, etc).
It would be nice If I could just model Materials and publish materials, then when creating a new report I would consume the published material dataset/datasource rather than pulling the materisl from sql server again thus duplciaitng the materil data that is being used.
Am I going about this the wrong way? When I'm creating my report I'm modeling it as a start schemea so I have my primary table query (Billign) and then I create queries for Customer, Plant, Date, and Material) in order to get additional details.
Rather than creating seperate material, customer, etc... queries should I be flattening that data into my primary fact table so that I only have 1 table and that table and that way I only have materials, customer, etc. that are required for my report? I have 56K material records but say for 2017 we may have only sold 6K different materials so from that stand point I don't need all 56K.
Thoughts, Ideas?
