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Oracle SQL – Finding free adjacent seats in an airplane, using Subquery Factoring, Analytical Functions (LISTAGG and LEAD), Outer Join, PIVOT and good old INSTR
1Using Oracle SQL to resolve meaningful and slightly less serious challenges is one of my favorite (semi-)professional pastimes. In the last two weeks, I have been presenting on various topics including Oracle SQL to audiences in six cities all across India as part of the OTN Yathra 2013. These presentations and the interaction with the attendees on the various capabilities of SQL have inspired me in several ways. One of the outcomes is this article – also inspired by the fairly long journey home and the many flights within India. In this article I will use several powerful options in Oracle SQL to resolve some simple to ask questions. The SQL functions I am using include:
- Insert with Multiple Subqueries
- Insert generating some random data
- LISTAGG for aggregating strings
- LEAD to produce the result for one row using information from the next
- PIVOT to present the data in a matrix format
The statements are straightforward (relatively), the data model is simple. You will like it.
Out of the box usage of ADF DVT Scheduling Gantt Chart to report Database Query Results using stacked bar charts per time period
0Gantt Charts in ADF are interesting components to visualize data that is organized according to time. The Gantt Charts have a horizontal time axis. In rows along the vertical axis, resources or tasks are displayed. The cells in this time/resource matrix represent information about the resource or the task at some point in time or more specifically: in some time period.
In this recent blog-article, I explained how we can use the Schedule Gantt chart to present results per resource per period using something closely resembling horizontal bar charts. The key thought is that when we present data associated with a standard period, we can use the Gantt Chart’s capability to set the length of the bar to express the size of the value in a specific period. More specifically: we can use the end date property to manipulate the length of the bar. This article we will take this one step further and create a Stacked Bar Chart for each resource for each period. In this case, I will present the number of Employees hired per Department per Year and do so using Stacked Bar Charts with segments per Job. The result – driven directly from SQL query in a read only ViewObject – looks like this:
We can More >
ADF DVT Speed Date : Meeting The Hierarchy Viewer
1Recently the ADF Special Interest Group at AMIS organized an ADF DVT Speed Date. During this speed date, six ADF specialists from our team presented their favorite Data Visualization Component from the DVT library. In a series of blog posts we share the information with a broader audience. In this post you get introduced to the Hierarchy Viewer – which was my own date for this party.
Introduction : The Hierarchy Viewer
A Hierarchy viewer is typically used to display hierarchical data. Examples of this are for instance a tree of life or a mindmap or even a family tree.
The ADF hierarchy viewer consists of several ADF components.
- dvt:hierarchyViewer : This element wraps the dvt:node and the dvt:link elements
- dvt:node : The dvt:node element supports the use of one or more f:facet elements that display content at different zoom levels (100%, 75%, 50%, and 25%).
- dvt:link : connects one node with another node
- dvt:panelCard : The panel card element provides a method to dynamically switch between multiple sets of content referenced by a node element using animation by, for example, horizontally sliding the content or flipping a node over.
A hierarchy viewer component requires data More >
Hotsos 2013 – From Unstructured to Structured…
0It has been a while that I have been attending Hotsos, although that is how it feels. In 2011 I flew to Hotsos to see, among others presentations from Maria Colgan, but I ended up being sick the whole week while learning on my hotel room to enjoy American TV. In 2012 I skipped Hotsos (10th year anniversary) thinking my schedule was too full with international presentations, but alas, that agenda cleared up expectantly, so in the end I missed out on some big conferences as a presenter and/or attendee.
Hotsos?You don’t know the Hotsos Symposium? The Hotsos Symposium is, in my honest opinion, is one of the most interesting best symposiums/conferences out there, when you goal is learning all about (Oracle) performance. This yearly happening takes place in Irving, Texas, in an Hotel on an isolated location somewhere nearby a highway some miles from Dallas downtown. When I read that Maria Colgan would do the Hotsos Training Day (an extra symposium option), without even seeing the rest of the symposium agenda, I knew I had to attend. Maria is a very natural gifted speaker and with her comfy way of addressing (difficult) problems and solutions, she nowadays easily attracts the same More >
Oracle SQL – spotting combinations that occur and those that do not – demonstrating Analytical Functions, Outer Join and SubQuery Factoring
0The challenge in this article is a simple one. I have a table with records (duh!) and each record describes the occurrence of a certain payload. In this example the payload will be a color. Every record also has a sequence number to indicate well, when it appeared relative to the other observations. A subset of the data would look like this:
The challenges I will discuss in this article are simple:
- which sequences of three color observations occur in the data set
- how often do these sequences of three occur (give me the top 3 sequences)
- given the colors that have been observed, which combinations of three can be created
- which possible combinations (or color sequences of three colors) have not been observed at all
Using Oracle SQL features such as Analytical Functions, Outer Join and Subquery Factoring – these questions become very easy to answer.
Oracle SQL: Using subquery factoring in an INSERT statement
0I use subquery factoring a lot, to make my SQL queries easier to write. This basically means that most of my queries these days start with WITH rather than SELECT. (this feature was introduced in the 9i release of the Oracle Database).
Today I was wondering whether I can also use subquery factoring in INSERT statements. You probably are familiar with INSERT statements that go like:
INSERT INTO <tablename>
(column1, columns2,….)
SELECT value1,value2,…
FROM … [rest of the query]
Such statements allow us to quickly and in a focused way load a table with records read from other tables (or PL/SQL Table Functions).
The question I had was: can I use WITH <subquery> as <alias>[, <subquery> as <alias>] SELECT value1,value2 from subquery,…. [rest of the query] inside an INSERT statement.
Best way to find it out – try and do it.
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