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ADF DVT: Visualizing valid periods using Project and Scheduling Gantt Charts
0In a recent article – Advanced SQL to find valid periods – juggling with outer joins, running totals and analytical functions – I discussed how to use Analytical Functions in SQL to cleverly (!) derive the valid periods from a database table that contains periods of inclusion and exclusion. A valid period is a period for which there is at least one inclusion and for which there is no exclusion. I used several powerpoint based graphics to illustrate the business case. For example:
to depict the periods of inclusion and exclusion and this figure to demonstrate how to derive the valid periods (the blue bars):
After completing this article – and fiddling around in Powerpoint quite a bit – I realized that for visualizing data in a table, I have a perfect tool at my fingertips: the Data Visualization Tags (DVT) in ADF 11g are created for this very purpose: turning data into information through visualization. And this rich library of DVTs components contains – in addition to fairly straightforward visualizations such as bar charts, pie charts and line graphs – also more complex visualization components such as the Bubble Chart, Thematic Map and Gantt Chart. The Gantt Chart has three More >
Advanced SQL to find valid periods – juggling with outer joins, running totals and analytical functions
2After teaching the Advanced SQL Masterclass recently, one of the attendees confronted me with an interesting challenge for me to solve with all the tools I had been discussing all day. This challenge originates in the world of insurance and revolves around policies. Apparently (I am not much of an insurance expert) policies can have periods of inclusions (when they are valid) as well as periods of exclusion (when the policy is definitely not valid, even when there are inclusions that suggest the opposite. The exclusions win, so to say.
Visually, I can describe the situation for one specific policy like this:
Here we see a policy with five inclusions (in green), that partly overlap, as well as four exclusions (in red). The challenge is that we need to find out from a table that contains all periods of inclusion (green) and exclusion (red) what the resulting periods of validity are for the policy. Visually that would be deriving the blue bars in the following figure:
This article describes how this challenge can be approached in SQL.
The Very Very Latest in Database Development – slides from the Expertezed presentation
0I have just completed my first ever presentation on the Expertezed.com network – http://www.expertezed.com/ , a reprise from my session on Oracle OpenWorld 2012. This presentation includes a number of slides regarding 12c features, based on the session and slides from Tom Kyte (Top 12 new features) and my notes from the excellent session CON8511 – Temporal Database Capabilities with the Latest Generation of Database Technology that I attended during the conference.
You can download the slides from this presentation here:Expertezed_OOW2012_TheVeryVeryLatestInDatabaseDevelopment.pptx .
AMIS Masterclass Advanced SQL – scherp je SQL skills in een pittige en praktijkgerichte dag – maandag 10 december
0Of je nu ‘klassieke’ Oracle applicaties ontwikkelt, met APEX bezig bent, een SOA landschap inricht of een Java/JEE (bijvoorbeeld ADF) applicatie bouwt: het fundament van veel van wat je doet is de database. En de crux van optimaal gebruik van de database is en blijft SQL. Dit bepaalt performance en schaalbaarheid en ook ontwikkel-productiviteit en zelfs pure functionaliteit. SQL kan veel meer in de Oracle Database dan de meeste – ook heel ervaren ontwikkelaars – weten. Tussen Oracle7 en Oracle 11gR2 is er met eigenlijk iedere release enorm veel kracht bijgekomen in de handen van “SQL componisten”. En je doet jezelf tekort als je niet regelmatig je SQL vaardigheden aanscherpt tot de nieuwste technische mogelijkheden en vooral de praktijkbewezen evolutie.
Op maandag 10 december verzorgt AMIS – Oracle specialist in Nieuwegein, sinds 1991 – een Masterclass Advanced SQL. Waarin voor ervaren SQL ontwikkelaars een overzicht wordt gegeven van de evolutie van de database – tot en met 11g Release 2 en met hier en daar al een vooruitblik naar 12c.
The APEX of Business Value… or: the Business Value of APEX? Cloud takes Oracle APEX to new heights!
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The attraction of APEX has increased tremendously with the recent launch of the Oracle Cloud. APEX already supported departmental development and deployment of business applications with minimal involvement from the IT department (only a database needed be made available). Positioned as the ideal replacement for MS Access, APEX probably has managed better to capture the eye of developers and was used for enterprise application development at least as much as for the kind of tactical applications that Oracle strategically positioned it for.
With APEX as PaaS & DevaaS from the Oracle Cloud, a leap is made to a much higher level of business value. Now the IT department is not even needed to make infrastructure available with a database running on it. All the business needs is a credit card. And the business application that is developed, managed and used from the cloud through a standard browser can now just as easily be accessed by users from around the world as by users from the business department itself. As a bonus – the development of the APEX application is also done in the cloud – with no special demands on the location or the enterprise access privileges of the More >
OOW 2012: The Very Very Latest in Database Development (CON4792)
0Database development in the Oracle Database is crucial for creating well balanced multi tier applications. This presentation describes a number of useful facilities and application architecture considerations around the database, taking into account some of the most recent insights.
The official slide deck from this presentation at Oracle Open World 2012:
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