SAP Note 380523 - Wrong results with STAR_TRANSFORMATION_ENABLED=TRUE

Component : Oracle - BW ORACLE

Solution : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/380523 (SAP Service marketplace login required)

Summary :
Incorrect results may occur in SAP queries performing star transformation on temporary tables referencing partitioned statistics-built tables, due to an Oracle bug (#1502624). Affected Oracle versions are 8.1.5, 8.1.6, and 8.1.7, with resolution available from Oracle 8.1.7.1 and 9.0 onwards. Issues occur under configurations where `STAR_TRANSFORMATION_ENABLED=TRUE` is set in `init.ora`. Resolving patches for various platforms and Oracle versions are detailed on sapserv, which also address issues noted in SAP note 360876. Deploying these fixes following platform-specific instructions will mitigate the described issue.

Key words :
terms bw cbo star_transformation_enabled partitioning reason, ora parameter        star_transformation_enabled=trueis set, 6 64-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/aix64/8, 6 64-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/hp_ux64/8, 6 32-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/hp_ux11, 6/81630/bug1568196 sun solaris 32/64-bit     oracle 8, 6 32-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/solaris/8, 6 64-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/compaq_tru64/8, 7 64-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/aix64/8, 7 32-bit           general/3rdparty/oracle/hp_ux11

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