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Week 10
April 5
• Subquery and Thresholds
• Graphics Builder and Forms
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The Importance of ORDER BY
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Relying on Fate…
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View name
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What’s the Problem?
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Ordered by record labels!
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140 rows
All 2001
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Paste the New Query into the Dialog Box
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Revised Graph
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Too many lines!
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What’s a Threshold and Why Do We Need It?
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Not much usable information
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Reduce the Number of Record Labels
Top 7 record labels in sales
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Create a set of threshold values
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Every record label must beat every value in this set,
OR simply every record label must beat the highest
(i.e., maximum) value in this set
Highest value
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REC
2001
--- ----------RCA
98562.88
COL
2285882.3
GRP
448870.6
GTS
156955.23
WB
571478.66
ARI
638935.25
KUC
48260.05
VER
188098.59
DOM
106147.96
LIB
42279.47
S/A
116819.02
CAP
1019419.4
KOK
59802.31
SHA
62003.69
DSY
104735.01
MCA
343229.06
MER
69748.69
MOT
252342.84
NAS
75892.67
PM
350717.42
WH
364718.11
CHS
62510.26
GEF
70964.37
APL
257074.33
ATL 1017378.32
E/A
83585.13
EMI
70391.52
POL
469854.45
2002
2003
2004
2005
---------- ---------- ----------- ----------96126.71
99773.52
112097.35
108383.42
2336707.93 2472875.7 2635497.41 2621255.29 Yes
469021.43 480428.06
531105.46
518445.68 Yes
154830.01 174953.32
196814.02
200256.45
576644.41 580731.48
587747.77
563445.49 Yes
628407.24 625556.25
644993.73
601378.96 Yes
40662.4
36247.64
35417.3
30704.89
202036.86 209501.61
245316.62
269777.58
120980.78 118289.17
116859.98
120437.15
42602.71
35975.38
39944.48
57172.18
131737.36 122668.75
137014.64
167739.88
1007901.07 972170.61 1005423.39
976683.56 Yes
82005.05
78328.95
78980.63
85922.7
81029.3
94834.46
120347.68
128159.91
97572.02
83157.61
88339.8
98077.64
345217.11 365019.64
392166.76
381035.82
69507.16
66263.35
61333.23
55619.23
263438.36 259107.84
290508.9
300567.62
91443.5 118311.33
172166.27
191768.39
354469.91 355604.56
363074.29
378489.29
374305.23 405000.86
483654.29
490804.67
76541.45 109559.04
106997.1
93288.6
70399.53
70265.02
85641.58
88666.07
296953.73 311523.14
324438.59
291354.25
1023850.51 993520.05 1082629.88
1117300.7 Yes
81487.22
99320.6
110026.61
118170.16
71098.97
75852.13
69773.29
55397.99
467419.28 485843.36
502552.77
453941.7 Yes
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YEAR
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2003
2005
2002
2004
THRESHOLD
---------330283.016
346523.920
369748.584
337903.903
371730.234
Highest
Eliminate the
ones with red
Working Backwards
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• Create a set of all record labels that have all sales values
greater than those found in the set of thresholds
All record labels must beat all threshold
values (or simply the minimum sales value
must beat the maximum threshold value)
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Retrieve all record labels annual sales
of those with minimum sales exceeding15
all values found in the thresholds
Subquery: Select only those record
labels that exist in the set that
contains record labels with sales
values greater than all threshold
values
35 rows
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Anatomy of the Subquery
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Basic Query for the Data Model:
select category, year, sales
Retrieves only those category members
from view1 alias1
that are found in the set produced by
where exists
the first subquery
(select category, min(sales)
Creates a set of category
from view1 alias2
where alias1.category = alias2.category members whose minimum
sales must be greater than all
group by category
threshold values
having min(sales) > all
(select threshold from view2))  Creates a set of threshold values
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In Graphics Builder
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A Few Simple Steps for Creating a Graph
(From Last Week)
• Build the initial SQL command in SQL Plus
• In Graphics Builder
– Build the data model
– Build the graph
• Select the graph type
• Assign the independent and dependent to the
categories and values, respectively
• Format the various components of graph as needed
• Save and run the graph
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Layout Editor
Tool palette
Chart tool - Create data model and graph
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A few steps later…
After Building the Graph
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Generating an OGR File
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 From the File menu, select Administration, Generate
and File System
Be sure to generate a new OGR file every time a change is made to
the OGD file.
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Generating an OGR File
 Save the file
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In Form Builder
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Create a Chart Item on the Canvas
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Select Data Block and the create tool in the tool palette
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Create a Chart Item on the Canvas
Select Build a new data block manually
and click on OK
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Create a New Item in the Data Block
Select Items and click on the Create Tool
in the tool palette
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Change the Item’s Property
Right-mouse click the item (e.g., ITEM5)
and select Property Palette
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Change the Item Type Property
1. Change the Item Type property
from Text Item to Chart Item
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Change the Canvas Property
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2. Change the Canvas property from <Null> to
the canvas’ name (e.g., CANVAS2)
3. Close the Property Palette
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Expand the Chart Item on the Canvas
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Attach the OG.PLL File
Select Attached Libraries and click on the create tool
in the tool palette
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Locate and Attach the OG.PLL File
1. Click on Browse and
search for the file
2. Select the file and click on Open
Hint. Locate the OG.PLL file through a search in Windows Explorer and copy it into your
working directory. It may be located under Developer’s \tools\devdem60\demo\forms
subdirectory.
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Attach the OG.PLL File
3. Click on Attach and select Yes (remove path)
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1. Add a push button
2. Right-mouse click the push button and
select PL/SQL Editor
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Select a Trigger
Select the WHEN-MOUSE-CLICK
trigger and click OK
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PL/SQL
Open and close the OGR file
Compile the PL/SQL code
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Test the Form
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Test the Form
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Modify the Canvas Properties
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Modify the Chart Item Properties
Remove the bevel
Change the Background Color to match the canvas
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First Graph
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PL/SQL
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Second Graph
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