FORCES 2013 - Largo, Florida
Writing Formulas
for the
OBIEE Answers Super-User
in You!
How a little SQL, Excel and Notepad makes it easy(er)
Patrick McCormack, SPHR, Senior Human Resources Advisor
Organization Development (904) 665-7059
PATRICK MCCORMACK, SPHR
SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES ADVISOR
JEA, \JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
• Reconfigured employee database for
US Navy PATRON 30
• Developed 1st Veterans Services
Tracking database for University of
North Florida
• Developed 1st Equal Employment
Opportunity Tracking database for
Mayor’s Office, City of Jacksonville
• Developed Self-Audit Timecard
tracking spreadsheet for Personnel
Office, City of Jacksonville
• Developed tracking database for DOT drug
and alcohol testing, City of Jacksonville
• HR Report Writer using D&B database, JEA
• HR Implementation Team Oracle, JEA
• HR Report Writer using Discoverer, JEA
• HR Implementation Team Oracle (R12), JEA
• HR Implementation Team OBIEE, JEA
• HR Report Writer using Business Objects, JEA
• HR Report Writer using OBIEE, JEA
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Today
• Explore ways to create formulas
– Look at helpful SQLs and simple Fxs
– MS Excel as a formula worksheet builder
– Notepad as a tool and storage
• EXTRA – ease the burden of tracking
– Answer Reports
– Answer Formulas
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Tools Used
• Notepad
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Access
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Materials
• SQL All-In-One for Dummies
(Allen G. Taylor)
• Dashboard & Report Design & Best Practices
(Amy Mayer & Kevin McGinley)
• Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers,
and Interactive Dashboards Users Guide V. 10.1.3.2
• Various internet available resources
• OBIEE SQL-92 help files
• And the . . .
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Version 10g or 11g?
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New or Regular User?
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You might ask
What’s to
learn in the
first place?
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<saw:report xmlns:saw="com.siebel.analytics.web/report/v1"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlVersion="200705140"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:sawx="com.siebel.analytics.web/expression/v1">
<saw:criteria subjectArea="&quot;Human Resources Compensation&quot;">
<saw:columns>
<saw:column formula="&quot;Employee
Attributes&quot;.&quot;Employee Number&quot;"
columnID="c0"/>
<saw:column formula="&quot;Employee
Attributes&quot;.&quot;Employee Name&quot;" columnID="c1"/>
<saw:column formula="&quot;Salary
Facts&quot;.&quot;Actual Hourly Rate&quot; * 2080"
columnID="c2"/></saw:columns></saw:criteria></saw:report> 15
But when -
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And
what happens when
the requested information
is not in the system in the form
the requester wants?
Let’s check
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Helpful SQL
• CAST (text AS INTEGER)
cast("Employee Attributes"."Employee Number" as int)
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Helpful SQL
• CASE WHEN THEN ELSE END [LENGTH/SUBSTRING]
CASE
when SUBSTRING(Job."Job Description" FROM LENGTH(Job."Job Description")-8 FOR
4) = '0070' THEN 'JEA AFSCME'
when SUBSTRING(Job."Job Description" FROM length(Job."Job Description")-8 FOR 4)
= '0090' then 'JEA LIUNA'
when SUBSTRING(Job."Job Description" FROM length(Job."Job Description")-8 FOR 4)
= '0179' then 'AFSCME TEMPORARY'
when SUBSTRING(Job."Job Description" FROM length(Job."Job Description")-8 FOR 4)
= '0190' then 'LIUNA TEMPORARY'
when SUBSTRING(Job."Job Description" FROM length(Job."Job Description")-8 FOR 4)
= '1618' then 'SJRPP IBEW'
when SUBSTRING(Job."Job Description" FROM length(Job."Job Description")-8 FOR 4)
= '2668' then 'EXTERNAL CONTRACTOR'
ELSE 'UNKNOWN' END
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Helpful SQL
• CONCAT
CONCAT("Employee Personal Attributes"."Employee
Permanent Adderss Line 1","Employee Personal
Attributes"."Employee Permanent Adderss Line 2")
"Employee Personal Attributes"."Employee
Permanent Adderss Line 1"||"Employee Personal
Attributes"."Employee Permanent Adderss Line
2"||"Employee Personal Attributes"."Employee
Permanent Adderss Line 3“
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Helpful SQL
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LEFT, RIGHT
LENGTH (demonstrated)
LOCATE (demonstrated next slide)
SUBSTRING (demonstrated)
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LOCATE
• Locate
CONCAT('00',SUBSTRING("Employee
Organization"."Employee Organization Name"
FROM LOCATE('4',"Employee
Organization"."Employee Organization Name")
FOR 3))
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Helpful SQL
• TimestampAdd
TimestampAdd(SQL_TSI_YEAR, 26, "Employee
Personal Attributes"."Employee Birth Date")
SQL_TSI_SECOND
SQL_TSI_MINUTE
SQL_TSI_HOUR
SQL_TSI_DAY
SQL_TSI_WEEK
SQL_TSI_MONTH
SQL_TSI_QUARTER
SQL-TSI_YEAR
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Helpful SQL
• TimestampDiff
TimestampDiff(SQL_TSI_DAY, "Employee Personal
Attributes"."Employee Birth Date",TIME.DATE)/365.2422
TimestampDiff(SQL_TSI_DAY, "Employee Personal
Attributes"."Employee Birth Date",Current_date)/365.2422
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Multi-Program Formula Creation
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Cut to
Excel
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Writing a formula in Excel
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Writing a formula in Excel
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Writing a formula in Excel
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Writing a formula in Excel
=Concatenate(a1,b1,c1)
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Writing a formula in Excel
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Writing a formula in Excel
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Writing a formula in Excel
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• Cut and Paste
• Complete Formula
Case
Else ‘Other’
End
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CASE
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Child(ren)'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Family'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Spouse'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant Only'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Child(ren)'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Family'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Spouse'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant Only'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Child(ren)'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Family'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Spouse'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant Only'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Child(ren)'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Family'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Spouse'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant Only'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Child(ren)'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Family'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Spouse'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant Only'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Child(ren)'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Family'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant + Spouse'
when "Payment Type"."Payment
Tax)Participant Only' END
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 126.66 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 276.71 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 154.70 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical ER' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 271.84 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 97.98 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 214.05 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 119.67 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical ER' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 210.02 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 141.10 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 308.26 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 172.35 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical ER' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 302.84 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 389.24 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 689.34 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 445.32 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 135.92 THEN 'Medical Medical Default Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 300.97 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 533.11 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 344.35 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 105.01 THEN 'Medical Medical HDHP Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 433.62 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 767.94 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 496.12 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
Type Description" = 'Medical PT' and "COMPENSATION FACTS"."PAY ITEM AMOUNT" = 151.42 THEN 'Medical Medical High Option Plan (Pre
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Ifnull(“Employment
Attributes”.”Employee
You Can Always
Write a Formula Last
Hire Date”,”Employment
Attributes”.”Employee
Directly into
Notepad
Adjusted Service Date”)
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MAIN ENTRY
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Library Database Brief Listing
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Library Listing By Consumer
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Library of Formula
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Library of Formula
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Items Covered
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Why have easier ways to write formula
How a little SQL helps
How Notepad can help
How Excel can help
How Access can help
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Do You Have
Any Questions?
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