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Compression and, therefore, Dynamic dimension. In Figure7.7, the reduction is from
15.662 Gb to 10.180 Gb. Why not have a smaller cube that takes up less space on disk
and in memory?
Usually, however, things are not so clear cut. Most dimensions do need some additive
consolidation. In particular, the larger dimensions such as [Stores] in Figure7.7 show
the greatest reduction of cube size from 10.180 Gb if [Measures] is chosen down to 7.094
Gb. Do you really want to give up all of the Stored consolidation and aggregation on
the 239 members in [Stores ...