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• Join our Marketing Intelligence Team in Dublin!

  - by jessica.ebbelaar

  Do you want to work with the brightest minds in the industry? Want to be part of a global team that’s changing the way the world does business? Then Oracle is the place for YOU. Join now as a Marketing Intelligence Representative. You will have the opportunity to develop within the role through working alongside the Business Development, Sales and Marketing teams within Oracle. The Marketing Intelligence Group is viewed as a true talent pool for the Business Development and Sales Teams. Oracle offers a structured training programme for Marketing Intelligence Representatives and Business Development Consultants including our approved sales certified training methodology along with regular product training. Miriam started her career as a Marketing Intelligence Representative six years ago, and shares what she has learned and how her career is progressing. My Career Path at Oracle: June 2005 – October 2005: Profiler in the Marketing Intelligence Team November 2005 - October 2006: Team Leader for MIT November 2006 - February 2008: Business Development Consultant Iberia March 2008 - December 2010: Lead Management Specialist Currently: Sales Program Manager for Iberia & Benelux What did you learn from your role in the Market Intelligence Team Being a Profiler helped me to understand how an organisation works, from the beginning to the end. It is like being in University but being paid! The three key things I learnt in this role are: Knowledge of customers: You are on the phone with over 70 customers daily. Not only does this give you an overview of the IT infrastructure of the customers companies but also how to manage their questions and rejections. Essentially you are learning how to convert their pain and complaints into business opportunities. Knowledge of Oracle: As a Profiler you get an excellent overview of how Oracle works internally, from Marketing to Sales, without forgetting the Operations Team. Knowledge about yourself: As a Profiler I learnt how to work outside of my comfort zone, there is a new challenge almost every day but Oracle are there to support you every step of the way. Oracle really invests in developing the MIT Team and as a Profiler you can expect product and sales training on a monthly basis. How did you progress from MIT to Business Development Group (BDG)? I made sure that my manager knew from the very beginning that I was keen to progress at Oracle and I was set very clear objectives to help me reach my goal.  My manager was very supportive and ensured I received all the training I needed. After I became a Team Leader of Profiling, I moved to an Iberia BDG position. How you feel your experience in MI has helped you in your current role? I truly believe that the MI position gives you a great overview of Oracle and this has really helped me in my current position.  I am the Sales Program Manager for IBERIA & Benelux and in my campaigns I need to target the right companies and the right job specs.  My time in the Market Intelligence team really helped me to understand how to focus and target my campaigns so I know I don’t miss any business opportunities! How would you sum up your Oracle experience? Oracle is a big organisation with big opportunities. With the right skills and with the great training programs that Oracle offer, the only limit is you! If you have any questions related to this article feel free to contact [email protected] You can find all our job opportunities via http://campus.oracle.com. Tags van Technorati: Marketing Intelligence,Benelux,Iberia,Profiler,Business Development,Sales Representatives,BDG,Business Development Group,opportunities,Oracle

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• Guest blog: A Closer Look at Oracle Price Analytics by Will Hutchinson

  - by Takin Babaei

  Overview:  Price Analytics helps companies understand how much of each sale goes into discounts, special terms, and allowances. This visibility lets sales management see the panoply of discounts and start seeing whether each discount drives desired behavior. In Price Analytics monitors parts of the quote-to-order process, tracking quotes, including the whole price waterfall and seeing which result in orders. The “price waterfall” shows all discounts between list price and “pocket price”. Pocket price is the final price the vendor puts in its pocket after all discounts are taken. The value proposition: Based on benchmarks from leading consultancies and companies I have talked to, where they have studied the effects of discounting and started enforcing what many of them call “discount discipline”, they find they can increase the pocket price by 0.8-3%. Yes, in today’s zero or negative inflation environment, one can, through better monitoring of discounts, collect what amounts to a price rise of a few percent. We are not talking about selling more product, merely about collecting a higher pocket price without decreasing quantities sold. Higher prices fall straight to the bottom line. The best reference I have ever found for understanding this phenomenon comes from an article from the September-October 1992 issue of Harvard Business Review called “Managing Price, Gaining Profit” by Michael Marn and Robert Rosiello of McKinsey & Co. They describe the outsized impact price management has on bottom line performance compared to selling more product or cutting variable or fixed costs. Price Analytics manages what Marn and Rosiello call “transaction pricing”, namely the prices of a given transaction, as opposed to what is on the price list or pricing according to the value received. They make the point that if the vendor does not manage the price waterfall, customers will, to the vendor’s detriment. It also discusses its findings that in companies it studied, there was no correlation between discount levels and any indication of customer value. I urge you to read this article. What Price Analytics does: Price analytics looks at quotes the company issues and tracks them until either the quote is accepted or rejected or it expires. There are prebuilt adapters for EBS and Siebel as well as a universal adapter. The target audience includes pricing analysts, product managers, sales managers, and VP’s of sales, marketing, finance, and sales operations. It tracks how effective discounts have been, the win rate on quotes, how well pricing policies have been followed, customer and product profitability, and customer performance against commitments. It has the concept of price waterfall, the deal lifecycle, and price segmentation built into the product. These help product and sales managers understand their pricing and its effectiveness on driving revenue and profit. They also help understand how terms are adhered to during negotiations. They also help people understand what segments exist and how well they are adhered to. To help your company increase its profits and revenues, I urge you to look at this product. If you have questions, please contact me. Will HutchinsonMaster Principal Sales Consultant – Analytics, Oracle Corp. Will Hutchinson has worked in the business intelligence and data warehousing for over 25 years. He started building data warehouses in 1986 at Metaphor, advancing to running Metaphor UK’s sales consulting area. He also worked in A.T. Kearney’s business intelligence practice for over four years, running projects and providing training to new consultants in the IT practice. He also worked at Informatica and then Siebel, before coming to Oracle with the Siebel acquisition. He became Master Principal Sales Consultant in 2009. He has worked on developing ROI and TCO models for business intelligence for over ten years. Mr. Hutchinson has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.

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• Four Easy Ways to Save a Rocky CRM Relationship

  - by Divya Malik

   Today, I am pleased to introduce our guest blogger Luke Christianson. Luke is  an Application Sales rep based out of Minneapolis, MN.  You can find him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter. In any relationship, sooner or later, the excitement fades away.  The honeymoon period gives way to the old routines you had, before you committed to each other and you eventually begin doing things apart from one another.  I’m not talking about a marriage…  Well, I guess I am.Commitment to a CRM tool and building a deep and lasting relationship is not much different than the basics of a traditional love story.  After your controlled CRM pilot program, and maybe the National Sales Meeting where you couldn’t escape those three wonderful letters, CRM, you will soon find that if you haven’t designed an environment where it’s going to enable your reps to make more money, the relationship is doomed.   . If you’re currently in a dysfunctional CRM relationship, here are 4 simple tips to re-engaging users and getting that spark back. Shadow a Sales Rep:   Chances are you can find out exactly what is preventing your sales reps from using the application by simply watching how they go about their day.  Sales reps are driven by money, not by additional administrative duties.  Your system needs to be setup so that they can get the information they need quickly, facilitate making key updates and run their business out of one easy-to-use application.  Increase your sales team’s productivity by 5% automatically:    Cancel the weekly forecast calls with your reps and require them update their opportunities in CRM.  Something else that I’ve seen work extremely well, is when you do Monthly or Quarterly reviews, do not let your sales reps bring anything into the room with them; no spreadsheets, notebooks, or computers.  Everything they need to tell you should be able to be put into CRM and fully accessible by the Sales Manager at any time.  Tool time:      Make sure the tools that you have selected meet both your short-term goals and your long term goals.   You need tools that can adapt like your business does.  You probably can’t wait two months for an update to a picklist value or for the addition of a simple workflow rule.  Do you feel the tools that are in place can create the experience you want for your users? and finally, if all else fails... Keep It Simple, Stupid:     Do you really need to require 15 fields to create an Opportunity?  Do you need to clutter the interface with different reports that don’t add daily value?  Most CRM systems on the market today are flexible enough today that your admin could clean up most of the unnecessary interface ‘noise’ in a few hours.  If they're not, see #3. Every strong relationship can be tedious at times, you’ll fight and eventually make amends, you may even threaten to upgrade to a newer model…  But be patient and think about what you want to achieve and you’ll find a partner for life.

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• Everytime user types , in my text box i want it to become ',' or help me do it using a parameter

  - by MyHeadHurts

  I am using a vb.net textbox to become part of my IN sql statement in my program I tryed to use a parameter and it didn't work here is my code TextBox1.Text = "'Cruises','Caribbean and Mexico','CentralSouth America', 'Europe','Far East','France','Italy','London/UK','Middle East/Africa','South Pacific','Spain/Portugal','USA/Canada'" the default value of my textbox although the user can edit the textbox, but they would need to type the ',' which i would rather them just type , . and my other code is If RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "Sales" And CheckBox1.Checked = False Then 'saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.Sales AS CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =" & DropDownList1.SelectedValue & ") AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.Sales AS CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in ('Cruises','Caribbean and Mexico','CentralSouth America', 'Europe','Far East','France','Italy','London/UK','Middle East/Africa','South Pacific','Spain/Portugal','USA/Canada') order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "NetSales" And CheckBox1.Checked = False Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFNET,0) + (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFOther,0))) as AsofSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YENET,0) + (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEOther,0))) as YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, (ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.netSales,0) + (ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.OtherSales,0))) as CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in ('Cruises','Caribbean and Mexico','CentralSouth America', 'Europe','Far East','France','Italy','London/UK','Middle East/Africa','South Pacific','Spain/Portugal','USA/Canada') order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Net Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "INSSales" And CheckBox1.Checked = False Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFINS,0)as AsofSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEINS,0) as YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.INSSales,0) as CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in ('Cruises','Caribbean and Mexico','CentralSouth America', 'Europe','Far East','France','Italy','London/UK','Middle East/Africa','South Pacific','Spain/Portugal','USA/Canada') order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Insurance Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "CXSales" And CheckBox1.Checked = False Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFCX,0)as AsofSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YECX,0) as YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.CXSales,0) as CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in ('Cruises','Caribbean and Mexico','CentralSouth America', 'Europe','Far East','France','Italy','London/UK','Middle East/Africa','South Pacific','Spain/Portugal','USA/Canada') order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Canceled Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "Sales" And CheckBox1.Checked = True Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.Sales AS CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in (" & TextBox1.Text & ") order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "NetSales" And CheckBox1.Checked = True Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFNET,0) + (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFOther,0))) as AsofSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YENET,0) + (ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEOther,0))) as YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, (ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.netSales,0) + (ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.OtherSales,0))) as CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in (" & TextBox1.Text & ") order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Net Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "INSSales" And CheckBox1.Checked = True Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFINS,0)as AsofSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEINS,0) as YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.INSSales,0) as CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in (" & TextBox1.Text & ") order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Insurance Sales" ElseIf RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = "CXSales" And CheckBox1.Checked = True Then saocmd1.CommandText = "SELECT dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.AsOFCX,0)as AsofSales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.ASOFPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YECX,0) as YESales, dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.YEPAX, ISNULL(dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.CXSales,0) as CurrentSales, dbo.B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.PAX AS CurrentPAX FROM B604SalesAsOfAdvanced INNER JOIN B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster ON dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR = B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.SDESCR WHERE (B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.DYYYY =@Dyyyy) AND (B604SalesAsOfAdvanced.DYYYY = (DatePart(year, GetDate()) +1)) and dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in (" & TextBox1.Text & ") order by B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR" Label2.Text = "Canceled Sales" End If Basically what is happening is, if a certain radio button is selected and the user didn't click the checkbox the default regions are included and they are hardcoded because the query runs much faster. if the user did click the checkbox then the textbox where they type the specific regions shows up and it will run the query that includes the dbo.B605SaleAsOfAdvancedMaster.SDESCR in (" & TextBox1.Text & ") If you can somehow do this using parameters and not with the textbox1.text in the query it will run much faster for me thanks for your help

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• My Ubuntu 12.10 will not start

  - by Adam Sales

  I'll boot my computer, then it'll get going, go to a purple screen and then my monitor goes to sleep, i've restarted it several times, and tried to get it to boot, no matter what it keeps going to the black screen. I've tried reinstalling ubuntu, i've even tried both 64 bit, and 32 bit. i have not once got it to a normal boot successfully either.It just won't run in normal boot, so i'm resorted to using safe mode, please help me, idk what to do.

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• Change $mailTo variable based on select input value (array)

  - by Dirty Bird Design

  I have the following select list: <form action="mail.php" method="POST"> <select name="foo" id="foo"> <option value="sales">Sales</option> <option value="salesAssist">Sales Assist</option> <option value="billing">Billing</option> <option value="billingAssist">Billing Assist</option> </select> </form> I need to route the $mailTo variable depending on which option they select, Sales and Sales Assist go to [email protected], while Billing and Billing Assist go to [email protected] PHP pseudeo code! <? php $_POST['foo'] if inArray(sales, salesAssist) foo="[email protected]"; else if inArray(billing, billingAssist) foo="[email protected]"; mailTo="foo" ?> I know there is nothing correct about the above, but you can see what I am trying to do, change a variable's value based on the selected value. I don't want to do this with JS, would rather learn more PHP here. Thank you.

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• Multi-statement Table Valued Function vs Inline Table Valued Function

  - by AndyC

  ie: CREATE FUNCTION MyNS.GetUnshippedOrders() RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN SELECT a.SaleId, a.CustomerID, b.Qty FROM Sales.Sales a INNER JOIN Sales.SaleDetail b ON a.SaleId = b.SaleId INNER JOIN Production.Product c ON b.ProductID = c.ProductID WHERE a.ShipDate IS NULL GO versus: CREATE FUNCTION MyNS.GetLastShipped(@CustomerID INT) RETURNS @CustomerOrder TABLE (SaleOrderID INT NOT NULL, CustomerID INT NOT NULL, OrderDate DATETIME NOT NULL, OrderQty INT NOT NULL) AS BEGIN DECLARE @MaxDate DATETIME SELECT @MaxDate = MAX(OrderDate) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader WHERE CustomerID = @CustomerID INSERT @CustomerOrder SELECT a.SalesOrderID, a.CustomerID, a.OrderDate, b.OrderQty FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader a INNER JOIN Sales.SalesOrderHeader b ON a.SalesOrderID = b.SalesOrderID INNER JOIN Production.Product c ON b.ProductID = c.ProductID WHERE a.OrderDate = @MaxDate AND a.CustomerID = @CustomerID RETURN END GO Is there an advantage to using one over the other? Is there certain scenarios when one is better than the other or are the differences purely syntactical? I realise the 2 example queries are doing different things but is there a reason I would write them in that way? Reading about them and the advantages/differences haven't really been explained. Thanks

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• Dynamic Data Manipulation using XSLT from XML

  - by Imrul

  I am not working with XSLT not too long. I read that variable of XSLT can't be updated on the fly, so how can i do the following task. I want to sum up Purchase & Sales and put them into a variable, and make some decision according to these values. (For example, if Purchase is greater then sales then do something if not, do something else) <rows> <row> <col attr2="Purchase" >100.00</col> <col attr2="Sales" >100.00</col> </row> <row > <col attr2="Purchase" >19.16</col> <col attr2="Sales" >12.94</col> </row> <row > <col attr2="Purchase" >0.67</col> <col attr2="Sales" >2.74</col> </row> <row > <col attr2="Purchase" >71.95</col> <col attr2="Sales" >61.54</col> </row> <row > <col attr2="Purchase" >3.62</col> <col attr2="Sales" >14.72</col> </row> <row > <col attr2="Purchase">8.80</col> <col attr2="Sales">1.22</col> </row> <row > <col attr2="Purchase" >-4.28</col> <col attr2="Sales" >6.53</col> </row> </rows> if anyone knows, please help me.

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• Openbravo Point of Sales: Tax after a certain amount.

  - by Yada

  I'm using Openbravo opensource PoS. It is possible to setup Openbravo PoS to apply a tax only after a certain amount? For example, if the total is less than or equal to $10 then there is no tax, but if the total is over $10 then a 8% tax is applied. Ie: the item costs $10 then the total is $10. If the item is $10.01 then the total is $10.81. I need to setup a rule similar to this. Thanks in advance.

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• How to join by column name

  - by Daniel Vaca

  I have a table T1 such that gsdv |nsdv |esdv ------------------- 228.90 |216.41|0.00 and a table T2 such that ds |nm -------------------------- 'Non-Revenue Sales'|'ESDV' 'Gross Sales' |'GSDV' 'Net Sales' |'NSDV' How do I get the following table? ds |nm |val --------------------------------- 'Non-Revenue Sales'|'ESDV'|0.00 'Gross Sales' |'GSDV'|228.90 'Net Sales' |'NSDV'|216.41 I know that I can this by doing the following SELECT ds,nm,esdv val FROM T1,T2 WHERE nm = 'esdv' UNION SELECT ds,nm,gsdv val FROM T1,T2 WHERE nm = 'gsdv' UNION SELECT ds,nm,nsdv val FROM T1,T2 WHERE nm = 'nsdv' but I am looking for a more generic/nicer solution. I am using Sybase, but if you can think of a way to do this with other DBMS, please let me know. Thanks.

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• What percentage does Apple get off your iphone app sales? [closed]

  - by Trip

  Couldn't find the answer anywhere. Does anyone know what they take, and what you get?

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• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint

  - by pinaldave

  I was recently working with various SQL Server Hints. After working for a day on various hints, I realize that for one hint, I am not able to come up with good example. The hint is FAST. Let us look at the definition of the FAST hint from the Book On-Line. FAST number_rows Specifies that the query is optimized for fast retrieval of the first number_rows. This is a nonnegative integer. After the first number_rows are returned, the query continues execution and produces its full result set. Now the question is in what condition this hint can be useful. I have tried so many different combination, I have found this hint does not make much performance difference, infect I did not notice any change in time taken to load the resultset. I noticed that this hint does not change number of the page read to return result. Now when there is difference in performance is expected because if you read the what FAST hint does is that it only returns first few results FAST – which does not mean there will be difference in performance. I also understand that this hint gives the guidance/suggestions/hint to query optimizer that there are only 100 rows are in expected resultset. This tricking the optimizer to think there are only 100 rows and which (may) lead to render different execution plan than the one which it would have taken in normal case (without hint). Again, not necessarily, this will happen always. Now if you read above discussion, you will find that basic understanding of the hint is very clear to me but I still feel that I am missing something. Here are my questions: 1) In what condition this hint can be useful? What is the case, when someone want to see first few rows early because my experience suggests that when first few rows are rendered remaining rows are rendered as well. 2) Is there any way application can retrieve the fast fetched rows from SQL Server? 3) Do you use this hint in your application? Why? When? and How? Here are few examples I have attempted during the my experiment and found there is no difference in execution plan except its estimated number of rows are different leading optimizer think that the cost is less but in reality that is not the case. USE AdventureWorks GO SET STATISTICS IO ON SET STATISTICS TIME ON GO --------------------------------------------- -- Table Scan with Fast Hint SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail GO SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail OPTION (FAST 100) GO --------------------------------------------- -- Table Scan with Where on Index Key SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE OrderQty = 14 GO SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE OrderQty = 14 OPTION (FAST 100) GO --------------------------------------------- -- Table Scan with Where on Index Key SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE SalesOrderDetailID < 1000 GO SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE SalesOrderDetailID < 1000 OPTION (FAST 100) GO Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Puzzle, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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• Getting Started with Chart control in ASP.Net 4.0

  - by sreejukg

  In this article I am going to demonstrate the Chart control available in ASP.Net 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Most of the web applications need to generate reports for business users. The business users are happy to view the results in a graphical format more that seeing it in numbers. For the purpose of this demonstration, I have created a sales table. I am going to create charts from this sale data. The sale table looks as follows I have created an ASP.Net web application project in Visual Studio 2010. I have a default.aspx page that I am going to use for the demonstration. First I am going to add a chart control to the page. Visual Studio 2010 has a chart control. The Chart Control comes under the Data Tab in the toolbox. Drag and drop the Chart control to the default.aspx page. Visual Studio adds the below markup to the page. <asp:Chart ID="Chart1" runat="server"></asp:Chart> In the designer view, the Chart controls gives the following output. As you can see this is exactly similar to other server controls in ASP.Net, and similar to other controls under the data tab, Chart control is also a data bound control. So I am going to bind this with my sales data. From the design view, right click the chart control and select “show smart tag” Here you need so choose the Data source property and the chart type. From the choose data source drop down, select new data source. In the data source configuration wizard, select the SQL data base and write the query to retrieve the data. At first I am going to show the chart for amount of sales done by each sales person. I am going to use the following query inside sqldatasource select command. “SELECT SUM(SaleAmount) AS Expr1, salesperson FROM SalesData GROUP BY SalesPerson” This query will give me the amount of sales achieved by each sales person. The mark up of SQLDataSource is as follows. <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:SampleConnectionString %>" SelectCommand="SELECT SUM(SaleAmount) as amount, SalesPerson FROM SalesData GROUP BY SalesPerson"></asp:SqlDataSource> Once you selected the data source for the chart control, you need to select the X and Y values for the columns. I have entered salesperson in the X Value member and amount in the Y value member. After modifications, the Chart control looks as follows Click F5 to run the application. The output of the page is as follows. Using ASP.Net it is much easier to represent your data in graphical format. To show this chart, I didn’t even write any single line of code. The chart control is a great tool that helps the developer to show the business intelligence in their applications without using third party products. I will write another blog that explore further possibilities that shows more reports by using the same sales data. If you want to get the Project in zipped format, post your email below.

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• Value of SOA Specialization interview with Thomas Schaller IPT - part III

  - by Jürgen Kress

  Recognized by Oracle, Preferred by Customers. We had the great opportunity to interview Thomas Schaller – Partner from our SOA Specialized Partner IPT Innovation Process Technology from Switzerland Why did IPT decide to become SOA Specialized? " SOA Specialization is a great branding for IPT. We are the SOA Specialists in the Swiss market, as we focus all our services around SOA. With 65 Swiss consultants focused on SOA Security & SOA Testing & BPM – Business Process Management & BSM – Business Service Modeling the partnership with Oracle as the technology leader in SOA is key, therefore it was important to us to become the first SOA Specialized company in Switzerland. As a result IPT is mentioned by Gartner as one of eight European SOA Consulting Firms and included in „Guide to SOA Consulting and System Integration Service Providers“ Can you describe the marketing activities with Oracle? Once a year we organize the largest SOA Conference in Switzerland “SOA, BPM & Integration Forum 2011“ Oracle is much more than a sponsor for the conference. Jointly we invite our customer base to attend this key event. The sales teams address jointly their most important prospects and customers. Oracle supports us with key speakers who present future directions of the Oracle SOA portfolio like Clemens Utschig-Utschig who presented details about the Complex Event Processing (CEP) solution in 2009 and James Allerton-Austin who presented details about the social BPM solution (BPM) in 2010. Additional our key customers presented their Oracle SOA success stories. How did you team with Oracle around the sales activities? "Sales alignment is key for the successful partnership. When we achieved! SOA Specialization we celebrated jointly with the Oracle and IPT middleware sales team. At the Aperol may interesting discussions resulted in joint opportunities and business. A key section of our joint business planning are marketing and sales activities. Together we define campaign topics and target customers. Matthias Breitschmid our superb Oracle partner manager ensures that the defined sales teams align and start the joint business. Regular we review our joint business plan with the joint management teams and Jürgen Kress our EMEA Oracle Sponsor. It is great to see that both companies profit from each other and we receive leads from Oracle!” Did you get Oracle support to train your consultants in the Oracle SOA Suite? “Enablement is key for us to deliver successful SOA projects. Together with Ralph Bellinghausen from the Oracle Enablement team we defined an Oracle trainings plan for our consultants. The monthly SOA Partner Community newsletter is a great resource to get the latest product updates, webcasts and trainings. As a SOA Specialized partner we get also invited to the SOA Blackbelt trainings, this trainings are hosted by Oracle product management where we get not only first hand information we get also direct access to the developers who can support us in critical project phases. Driven by the customer success we have increased our Oracle SOA practice by more than 200% in the last years!” Why did the customer decide for the IPT SOA offering? “SOA Specialization becomes a brand for customers, it proofs that we have the certified SOA skills and that IPT has delivered successful Oracle SOA projects. Jointly with Oracle and all the support we get from marketing, sales, enablement, support and product management we can ensure our customers to deliver their SOA project successful!” What are the next steps for IPT? “SOA Specialization is a super beneficial for IPT. We are looking forward to our upcoming SOA, BPM & Integration Forum 2011 and prepare to become BPM Specialized. part I Torsten Winterberg, Opitz Consulting & part II Debra Lilley, Fujitsu For more information on SOA Specialization and the SOA Partner Community please feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Website

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• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Introduction to SEQUENCE – Simple Example of SEQUENCE

  - by pinaldave

  SQL Server 2011 will contain one of the very interesting feature called SEQUENCE. I have waited for this feature for really long time. I am glad it is here finally. SEQUENCE allows you to define a single point of repository where SQL Server will maintain in memory counter. USE AdventureWorks2008R2 GO CREATE SEQUENCE [Seq] AS [int] START WITH 1 INCREMENT BY 1 MAXVALUE 20000 GO SEQUENCE is very interesting concept and I will write few blog post on this subject in future. Today we will see only working example of the same. Let us create a sequence. We can specify various values like start value, increment value as well maxvalue. -- First Run SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR Seq, c.CustomerID FROM Sales.Customer c GO -- Second Run SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR Seq, c.AccountNumber FROM Sales.Customer c GO Once the sequence is defined, it can be fetched using following method. Every single time new incremental value is provided, irrespective of sessions. Sequence will generate values till the max value specified. Once the max value is reached, query will stop and will return error message. Msg 11728, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 The sequence object ‘Seq’ has reached its minimum or maximum value. Restart the sequence object to allow new values to be generated. We can restart the sequence from any particular value and it will work fine. -- Restart the Sequence ALTER SEQUENCE [Seq] RESTART WITH 1 GO -- Sequence Restarted SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR Seq, c.CustomerID FROM Sales.Customer c GO Let us do final clean up. -- Clean Up DROP SEQUENCE [Seq] GO There are lots of things one can find useful about this feature. We will see that in future posts. Here is the complete code for easy reference. USE AdventureWorks2008R2 GO CREATE SEQUENCE [Seq] AS [int] START WITH 1 INCREMENT BY 1 MAXVALUE 20000 GO -- First Run SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR Seq, c.CustomerID FROM Sales.Customer c GO -- Second Run SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR Seq, c.AccountNumber FROM Sales.Customer c GO -- Restart the Sequence ALTER SEQUENCE [Seq] RESTART WITH 1 GO -- Sequence Restarted SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR Seq, c.CustomerID FROM Sales.Customer c GO -- Clean Up DROP SEQUENCE [Seq] GO Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology

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• SaaS Customer Service Matters

  - by charles.knapp

  You probably know that Oracle CRM On Demand goes beyond contact and transaction tracking by providing valuable real-time insights. Do you know that Oracle CRM On Demand also delivers valuable service to our customers? Don't take my word for it. "Prior to Oracle CRM On Demand, we were too busy looking in the rear view mirror on our sales activities and needed a forward-looking tool to maximize sales and coaching opportunities," said Christian Doelle, Vice President Sales & Marketing, MonierLifetile. "After evaluating other organization's solutions, we found Oracle as the most proven with the real-time reporting and detailed reviews of sales opportunities that helped us to address our blind spots. Additionally, we have found throughout our implementation phase that Oracle's commitment to customer attention and service is incomparable." Learn more here about MonierLifetile's experience with Oracle CRM On Demand.

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• DIVIDE vs division operator in #dax

  - by Marco Russo (SQLBI)

  Alberto Ferrari wrote an interesting article about DIVIDE performance in DAX. This new function has been introduced in SQL Server Analysis Services 2012 SP1, so it is available also in Excel 2013 (which still doesn’t have other features/fixes introduced by following Cumulative Updates…). The idea that instead of writing: IF ( Sales[Quantity] <> 0, Sales[Amount] / Sales[Quantity], BLANK () ) you can write: DIVIDE ( Sales[Amount], Sales[Quantity] ) There is a third optional argument in DIVIDE that defines the result in case the denominator (second argument) is zero, and by default its value is BLANK, so I omitted the third argument in my example. Using DIVIDE is very important, especially when you use a measure in MDX (for example in an Excel PivotTable) because it raise the chance that the non empty evaluation for the result is evaluated in bulk mode instead of cell-by-cell. However, from a DAX point of view, you might find it’s better to use the standard division operator removing the IF statement. I suggest you to read Alberto’s article, because you will find that an expression applying a filter using FILTER is faster than using CALCULATE, which is against any rule of thumb you might have read until now! Again, this is not always true, and depends on many conditions – trying to simplify, we might say that for a simple calculation, the query plan generated by FILTER could be more efficient – but, as usual, it depends, and 90% of the times using FILTER instead of CALCULATE produces slower performance. Do not take anything for granted, and always check the query plan when performance are your first issue!

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• Amazon.com Cutting Off Colorado Affiliates

  - by Joe Mayo

  I received an email from Amazon.com today, essentially cutting off my affiliate status because I'm in Colorado. Colorado recently passed legislation that requires retailers to either collect sales tax for on-line transactions or engage in an onerous process that makes you wish you had collected sales tax.  After I Tweeted this, Mike Jones tweeted a link to the legislation.  Here's an excerpt from Amazon.com's email: "Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to collect sales tax. Instead, they are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be induced to "voluntarily" collect Colorado sales tax -- a course we won't take. We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other states. There is a right way for Colorado to pursue its revenue goals, but this new law is a wrong way. As we repeatedly communicated to Colorado legislators, including those who sponsored and supported the new law, we are not opposed to collecting sales tax within a constitutionally-permissible system applied even-handedly. The US Supreme Court has defined what would be constitutional, and if Colorado would repeal the current law or follow the constitutional approach to collection, we would welcome the opportunity to reinstate Colorado-based Associates. You may express your views of Colorado's new law to members of the General Assembly and to Governor Ritter, who signed the bill. Your Associates account has been closed as of March 8, 2010, and we will no longer pay advertising fees for customers you refer to Amazon.com after that date. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned prior to March 8, 2010, will be processed and paid in accordance with our regular payment schedule. Based on your account closure date of March 8, any final payments will be paid by May 31, 2010. We have enjoyed working with you and other Colorado-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program, and wish you all the best in your future.   Best Regards,   The Amazon Associates Team"

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• May In Review

  - by Richard Bingham

  Content Highlights Our Application Composer series had fresh articles on the related internal data model and lots more on Groovy, including how to manipulate your data and a useful table showing you when and where groovy scripting can be used. For those just getting started with Fusion Applications user security, this article gave some handy examples to get your going. Jani's Java Cloud Service series continued strongly, with examples of integration using ADFbc, a Web Service Proxy client, and the ADF Data Control. From Other Teams The Oracle A-Team provided a broad set of articles during May, with various topics related to Fusion Applications including patching and performance management for on-premises deployments, and generic content on both integration and data extraction via web services. As part of their presentation to Oracle Israel User Group, our AppsUX colleagues explained the fresh new type of interface to Oracle Sales, through the voice mobile apps. This was in addition to demonstrations of the newer Release 8 Simplified UI customization options. Finally Angelo, our colleague in Platform Technical Services, explained in his blog how to use the findCriteria element included in all Oracle Sales web services to reduce the data returned, making response payloads much more specific, lightweight and therefore usable. Events and Announcements Oliver explained in this post about the new set of code samples on OTN for extending Sales Cloud using Oracle Platform as a Service. In addition, a new set of cloud developer documentation was released to provide more guided-learning on extending Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) services. This illustrative content is mainly as downloadable PDFs, and include topics covering sales cloud extensibility basics, using web services from JDeveloper (including security), using PaaS for SaaS development, and ADF (including mobile).

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• FY11 plans &ndash; how can you increase your SOA business?

  - by Jürgen Kress

  Thanks for a fantastic FY10 was great to work with all of you! Yes with the economic crises the fiscal year was hard. SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware do address this challenges and can help companies to save cost to integrate their systems, automate and change their processes. More when we publish our fiscal year results. What is on the agenda for FY11? Specialization: It is key that you become SOA & Application Grid Specialized. We will focus our activities and budgets on partners with Specialization! Sales campaigns: To support you in our joint business we will continue to run joint sales campaigns. With OFM 11g there is a great opportunity to generate service revenue to migrate and to consolidate on the platform. It is key that you do register your opportunities within the Open Market Model (OMM) to ensure sales alignment. Enablement. With the release of many new products and versions training is key. We will continue to offer training dedicated to your role: sales, pre-sales and implementation. Make sure that you check local partner training calendars and sign up for the next bootcamps Thanks for your support! Jürgen Kress

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• DCOGS Balance Breakup Diagnostic in OPM Financials

  - by ChristineS-Oracle

  Purpose of this diagnostic (OPMDCOGSDiag.sql) is to identify the sales orders which constitute the Deferred COGS account balance.This will help to get the detailed transaction information for Sales Order/s Order Management, Account Receivables, Inventory and OPM financials sub ledger at the Organization level.  This script is applicable for various scenarios of Standard Sales Order, Return Orders (RMA) coupled with all the applicable OPM costing methods like Standard, Actual and Lot costing.  OBJECTIVE: The sales order(s) which are at different stages of their life cycle in one spreadsheet at one go. To collect the information of: This will help in: Lesser time for data collection. Faster diagnosis of the issue. Easy collaboration across different modules like  Order Management, Accounts Receivables, Inventory and Cost Management.  You can download the script from Doc ID 1617599.1 DCOGS Balance Breakup (SO/RMA) and Diagnostic Analyzer in OPM Financials.

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• Working with Reporting Services Filters–Part 5: OR Logic

  - by smisner

  When you combine multiple filters, Reporting Services uses AND logic. Once upon a time, there was actually a drop-down list for selecting AND or OR between filters which was very confusing to people because often it was grayed out. Now that selection is gone, but no matter. It wouldn’t help us solve the problem that I want to describe today. As with many problems, Reporting Services gives us more than one way to apply OR logic in a filter. If I want a filter to include this value OR that value for the same field, one approach is to set up the filter is to use the IN operator as I explained in Part 1 of this series. But what if I want to base the filter on two different fields? I  need a different solution. Using the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 database, I have a report that lists product sales: Let’s say that I want to filter this report to show only products that are Bikes (a category) OR products for which sales were greater than $1,000 in a year. If I set up the filter like this: Expression Data Type Operator Value [Category] Text = Bikes [SalesAmount]   > 1000 Then AND logic is used which means that both conditions must be true. That’s not the result I want. Instead, I need to set up the filter like this: Expression Data Type Operator Value =Fields!EnglishProductCategoryName.Value = "Bikes" OR Fields!SalesAmount.Value > 1000 Boolean = =True The OR logic needs to be part of the expression so that it can return a Boolean value that we test against the Value. Notice that I have used =True rather than True for the value. The filtered report appears below. Any non-bike product appears only if the total sales exceed $1,000, whereas Bikes appear regardless of sales. (You can’t see it in this screenshot, but Mountain-400-W Silver, 38 has sales of $923 in 2007 but gets included because it is in the Bikes category.)

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• See the latest Applications Cloud user experiences at Oracle OpenWorld 2014

  - by mvaughan

  By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience OAUX Day: Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Strategy & Roadmap?. This event is for partners, Oracle sales, and customers who are passionate about Oracle’s commitment to the ongoing user experience investment in Oracle’s Applications Cloud. If you want to see where we are going firsthand, contact the Applications UX team to attend this special event, scheduled the week before Oracle OpenWorld.All attendees must be approved to attend and have signed Oracle’s non-disclosure agreement. Register HERE.Date and time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 Location: Oracle Conference Center, Redwood City, Calif. Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Partner & Sales Briefing This event is for Oracle Applications partners and Oracle sales who want to find out what’s up with release 9 user experience highlights for: Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, cloud extensibility, and Paas4SaaS. It will be held the day before Oracle OpenWorld kicks off. All attendees must be approved to attend. Register HERE.Date and time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014Location: Intercontinental Hotel, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, Calif. , in the Telegraph Hill room. Oracle OpenWorld 2014 OAUX Applications Cloud Exchange.This daylong, demo-intensive event is for Oracle customers, partners, and sales representatives who want to see what the future of Oracle’s cloud user experiences will look like. Attendees will also see what’s cooking in Oracle’s research and development kitchen – concepts that aren’t products … yet.All attendees must be approved to attend and have signed Oracle’s non-disclosure agreement. Register HERE.Date and time:  1 - 4 p.m. and 6 - 8:00 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, 2014 Location: Intercontinental Hotel, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, Calif., on the Spa Terrace.

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• Non use of persisted data

  - by Dave Ballantyne

  Working at a client site, that in itself is good to say, I ran into a set of circumstances that made me ponder, and appreciate, the optimizer engine a bit more. Working on optimizing a stored procedure, I found a piece of code similar to : select BillToAddressID, Rowguid, dbo.udfCleanGuid(rowguid) from sales.salesorderheaderwhere BillToAddressID = 985 A lovely scalar UDF was being used,  in actuality it was used as part of the WHERE clause but simplified here.  Normally I would use an inline table valued function here, but in this case it wasn't a good option. So this seemed like a pretty good case to use a persisted column to improve performance. The supporting index was already defined as create index idxBill on sales.salesorderheader(BillToAddressID) include (rowguid) and the function code is Create Function udfCleanGuid(@GUID uniqueidentifier)returns varchar(255)with schemabindingasbegin Declare @RetStr varchar(255) Select @RetStr=CAST(@Guid as varchar(255)) Select @RetStr=REPLACE(@Retstr,'-','') return @RetStrend Executing the Select statement produced a plan of : Nothing surprising, a seek to find the data and compute scalar to execute the UDF. Lets get optimizing and remove the UDF with a persisted column Alter table sales.salesorderheaderadd CleanedGuid as dbo.udfCleanGuid(rowguid)PERSISTED A subtle change to the SELECT statement… select BillToAddressID,CleanedGuid from sales.salesorderheaderwhere BillToAddressID = 985 and our new optimized plan looks like… Not a lot different from before!  We are using persisted data on our table, where is the lookup to fetch it ?  It didnt happen,  it was recalculated.  Looking at the properties of the relevant Compute Scalar would confirm this ,  but a more graphic example would be shown in the profiler SP:StatementCompleted event. Why did the lookup happen ? Remember the index definition,  it has included the original guid to avoid the lookup.  The optimizer knows this column will be passed into the UDF, run through its logic and decided that to recalculate is cheaper than the lookup.  That may or may not be the case in actuality,  the optimizer has no idea of the real cost of a scalar udf.  IMO the default cost of a scalar UDF should be seen as a lot higher than it is, since they are invariably higher. Knowing this, how do we avoid the function call?  Dropping the guid from the index is not an option, there may be other code reliant on it.   We are left with only one real option,  add the persisted column into the index. drop index Sales.SalesOrderHeader.idxBillgocreate index idxBill on sales.salesorderheader(BillToAddressID) include (rowguid,cleanedguid) Now if we repeat the statement select BillToAddressID,CleanedGuid from sales.salesorderheaderwhere BillToAddressID = 985 We still have a compute scalar operator, but this time it wasnt used to recalculate the persisted data.  This can be confirmed with profiler again. The takeaway here is,  just because you have persisted data dont automatically assumed that it is being used.

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• Null Values And The T-SQL IN Operator

  - by Jesse

  I came across some unexpected behavior while troubleshooting a failing test the other day that took me long enough to figure out that I thought it was worth sharing here. I finally traced the failing test back to a SELECT statement in a stored procedure that was using the IN t-sql operator to exclude a certain set of values. Here’s a very simple example table to illustrate the issue: Customers CustomerId INT, NOT NULL, Primary Key CustomerName nvarchar(100) NOT NULL SalesRegionId INT NULL   The ‘SalesRegionId’ column contains a number representing the sales region that the customer belongs to. This column is nullable because new customers get created all the time but assigning them to sales regions is a process that is handled by a regional manager on a periodic basis. For the purposes of this example, the Customers table currently has the following rows: CustomerId CustomerName SalesRegionId 1 Customer A 1 2 Customer B NULL 3 Customer C 4 4 Customer D 2 5 Customer E 3   How could we write a query against this table for all customers that are NOT in sales regions 2 or 4? You might try something like this: 1: SELECT 2: CustomerId, 3: CustomerName, 4: SalesRegionId 5: FROM Customers 6: WHERE SalesRegionId NOT IN (2,4)   Will this work? In short, no; at least not in the way that you might expect. Here’s what this query will return given the example data we’re working with: CustomerId CustomerName SalesRegionId 1 Customer A 1 5 Customer E 5   I was expecting that this query would also return ‘Customer B’, since that customer has a NULL SalesRegionId. In my mind, having a customer with no sales region should be included in a set of customers that are not in sales regions 2 or 4.When I first started troubleshooting my issue I made note of the fact that this query should probably be re-written without the NOT IN clause, but I didn’t suspect that the NOT IN clause was actually the source of the issue. This particular query was only one minor piece in a much larger process that was being exercised via an automated integration test and I simply made a poor assumption that the NOT IN would work the way that I thought it should. So why doesn’t this work the way that I thought it should? From the MSDN documentation on the t-sql IN operator: If the value of test_expression is equal to any value returned by subquery or is equal to any expression from the comma-separated list, the result value is TRUE; otherwise, the result value is FALSE. Using NOT IN negates the subquery value or expression. The key phrase out of that quote is, “… is equal to any expression from the comma-separated list…”. The NULL SalesRegionId isn’t included in the NOT IN because of how NULL values are handled in equality comparisons. From the MSDN documentation on ANSI_NULLS: The SQL-92 standard requires that an equals (=) or not equal to (<>) comparison against a null value evaluates to FALSE. When SET ANSI_NULLS is ON, a SELECT statement using WHERE column_name = NULL returns zero rows even if there are null values in column_name. A SELECT statement using WHERE column_name <> NULL returns zero rows even if there are nonnull values in column_name. In fact, the MSDN documentation on the IN operator includes the following blurb about using NULL values in IN sub-queries or expressions that are used with the IN operator: Any null values returned by subquery or expression that are compared to test_expression using IN or NOT IN return UNKNOWN. Using null values in together with IN or NOT IN can produce unexpected results. If I were to include a ‘SET ANSI_NULLS OFF’ command right above my SELECT statement I would get ‘Customer B’ returned in the results, but that’s definitely not the right way to deal with this. We could re-write the query to explicitly include the NULL value in the WHERE clause: 1: SELECT 2: CustomerId, 3: CustomerName, 4: SalesRegionId 5: FROM Customers 6: WHERE (SalesRegionId NOT IN (2,4) OR SalesRegionId IS NULL)   This query works and properly includes ‘Customer B’ in the results, but I ultimately opted to re-write the query using a LEFT OUTER JOIN against a table variable containing all of the values that I wanted to exclude because, in my case, there could potentially be several hundred values to be excluded. If we were to apply the same refactoring to our simple sales region example we’d end up with: 1: DECLARE @regionsToIgnore TABLE (IgnoredRegionId INT) 2: INSERT @regionsToIgnore values (2),(4) 3:  4: SELECT 5: c.CustomerId, 6: c.CustomerName, 7: c.SalesRegionId 8: FROM Customers c 9: LEFT OUTER JOIN @regionsToIgnore r ON r.IgnoredRegionId = c.SalesRegionId 10: WHERE r.IgnoredRegionId IS NULL By performing a LEFT OUTER JOIN from Customers to the @regionsToIgnore table variable we can simply exclude any rows where the IgnoredRegionId is null, as those represent customers that DO NOT appear in the ignored regions list. This approach will likely perform better if the number of sales regions to ignore gets very large and it also will correctly include any customers that do not yet have a sales region.

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