Analyzing and Categorizing
Purpose
In the IT process Analyzing and Categorizing, you analyze individual database tables and examine their contents. The generated analyses help you categorize the data to later determine which archiving objects you require. The analyses provide information about which selection criteria could have the greatest effect during archiving. In this way, you can avoid examining archiving objects or organizational units that contribute little to the data volume.
Use of the Process
This process is part of the following IT scenario:
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Prerequisites
You are familiar with the specified tools and are able to interpret the values they provide.
Process Flow
1. Performing Table Analyses
You can use this function (transaction TAANA) to perform the analyses of database tables and examine their contents. During this analysis, the number of associated entries is assigned to particular field value combinations. Different analysis variants containing corresponding field lists are provided for this purpose.
2. Determining the Assigned Archiving Objects
After you have identified the critical tables, you need to find out which archiving objects they have been assigned to. You can use the function Tables and Archiving Objects (transaction DB15) to do this.
You can use this function to find out about which tables are assigned to which archiving objects and vice versa. This means that you can assign the tables that you identified in the first analysis phase to a concrete archiving object with which the table contents can be archived.
Result
By analyzing individual database tables, you have found out which archiving objects to use, and in which sequence, to gain the greatest benefits for your system from data archiving.