I have a table that contains students' results. These results are generally broken into four types: term1, term2, term3 and term4. So over a year, a student may have up to four records in that table containing his results.
I want to create a layout that contain a portal that will show all the 4 records in a single portal row. Is there any way to do this? Or any workaround?
The reason why I do not want to display the records as four rows in the portal is because there are different subjects and will not be right if each subject occupy four rows and there are many subjects a student may take.
I can think of two ways to approach this, both of which would require a relationship from your Results table occurrence to another table occurrence based on Results, let's call it Results~SameStudentID. (The matching field would the foreign key to the Student table, FK_StudentID = FK_StudentID.)
Create 4 calculation fields in your Results table: Result_1, Result_2, Result_n, etc. The formula to use for each of the calculation (starting from the context of the Results table occurrence) would be:
GetNthRecord ( Results~SameStudentID::Result ; n )
Then, simply include the 4 "Result_n" fields in your portal
Create just one field, Results_1_4, with the following formula:
Substitute ( List ( Results~SameStudentID::Result ) ; ΒΆ ; " " )
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I have a view, A, with 20 columns which forms my primary data. I have a table B which lists some of the columns from A and contains data I want to exclude from A.
For example table B will have 6 columns 2 of which are 'customer' and 'country' and contain the data 'HP' and 'America'. These columns exist in A. But I want to write a query that brings back data from A except where any rows that have a combination HP and America.
There are 6 columns and table B can have any combination of rows. Anywhere between 1 and all 6 rows could be filled in or there could be a row which has 5 columns filled in. Also another row with a different 5 columns filled in and so on.
I want to be prepared for any possible combination of the 6 rows and the query to search A for the combination and exclude any rows with that data from B.
I have tried this
SELECT *
FROM A T1
WHERE not EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM [dbo].[ExcludedItems] T2
WHere ReportNumber=1
AND
(
T1.job=ISNULL(T2.job,T1.job) and T1.CustomerName=ISNULL(T2.CustomerName,T1.CustomerName) and
T1.COUNTRY= ISNULL(T2.COUNTRY,T1.COUNTRY) and T1.CONTINENT=ISNULL(T2.CONTINENT,T1.CONTINENT) AND
T1.continer= ISNULL(T2.ContainerName, T1.continer) and T1.UnscheduledJob= ISNULL(T2.unscheduledJob, T1.UnscheduledJob) and
T1.[Price]= ISNULL(T2.Price, T1.Price) and
T1.[Haulage]= ISNULL(T2.[Haulage], T1.[Haulage]) and
T1.SiteAdress= ISNULL(T2.SiteAddress, T1.SiteAdress) and T1.Delta=ISNULL(T2.Delta, T1.Delta) and
T1.Cost= ISNULL(T2.Cost, T1.Cost)
)
)
The problem is the result set is not correct. I have tried with a smaller column sample and able to exclude the correct combination of Customer and Country but when I introduce a 3rd or 4th column combination I can eyeball the result set and immediately see its incorrect. Not sure if I have to use multiple NOT EXISTS for each possible combination, was hoping not to.
A constraint is A has to be a view not a table. Otherwise I would have used variables in some manner and wrapped the whole thing in a stored procedure.
Appreciate any help, fall back is to manually add to the code each time an item combination is supplied in B!
I have a table in tableau with say 4 columns (Say Employee ID, Name, Address, Email).
I want to provide the users an option to select single/multiple columns from a drop down list (assume in the drop down list we have columns headers, Customfield1, Customfield2.....,Customfield10) which would be added to the table as a separate columns.
Say for Instance if the user selects CustomField1, CustomField2, CustomField3 from the drop-down list then the table should have in total of 7 columns (4 Emp fields + 3 Custom Fields)
Though I stated a simple requirement, my idea was to extrapolate that to something complex.
I think some version of this could be done, albeit in a hacky way. What you're looking for is 'Dynamic Parameters.' They don't technically officially exist in the product, but can be created with the combination of parameter and calculated field.
Here is a link to a method on such creation.
The idea here would be to re-order columns in a custom manner. Each calculated field would have to have its own logic for which dimension it was to display when a user selected a parameter. (ie: With parameter selection A Column 1 goes to [Name] and Column 2 goes to [Address], and with parameter selection B Column 1 goes to [Address] and Column 2 goes to [Name].) The caveat here is that each potential layout would need to have the same number of columns - there is not a way to add columns dynamically. Consider that each column is represented here with a calculated field.
Good luck on it.
This is the data that comes back from the database
Data Sample for one season (the report returns values for two):
What you can see is groupings, by Season, Theater then Performance number and lastly we have the revenue and ticket columns.
The SSRS Report Has three levels of groupings. Pkg (another ID that groups the below), venue -- the venue column and perf_desc -- the description column linked tot he perf_no.
Looks like this --
What I need to do is take the revenue column (a unique value) for each Performance and return it in a separate column -- so i use this formula.
sum(Max(Fields!perf_tix.Value, "perf_desc"))
This works great, gives me the total unique value for each performance -- and sums them up by the pkg level.
The catch is when i need to pull the data out by season.
I created a separate column looks like this
it's yellow because it's invisible and is referenced elsewhere. But the expression is if the Season value = to the Parameter (passed season value) -- then basically pull the sum of each of the tix values and sum them up. This also works great on the lower line - the line where the grouping exists for pkg -- light blue in my case.
=iif(Fields!season.Value = Parameters!season.Value, Sum(Max(Fields!perf_tix.Value, "perf_desc")), 0)
However, the line above -- the parent/header line its giving me the sum of the two seasons values. Basically adding it all up. This is not what I want and also why is it doing this. The season value is not equal to the passed parameter for the second season value so why is it adding it to the grouped value.
How do I fix this??
Since your aggregate function is inside your IIF function, only the first record in your dataset is being evaluated. If the first one matches the parameter, all records would be included.
This might work:
=IIF(Fields!season.Value = Parameters!season.Value, Sum(Max(Fields!perf_tix.Value, "perf_desc")), 0)
It might be better if your report was also grouping on the Venue, otherwise you count may include all values.
I'm working in Pentaho 4.4.1-GA (Kettle / PDI). The database is Postgres.
I need to be able to insert multiple records into a fact table based on the fields that come from a single record. The single record contains fields:
productcode1, price1
productcode2, price2
productcode3, price3
...
productcode10,price10
So if there was a value for each of the 10 productcode / prices then I'd need to insert a total of 10 records into the fact table. If there were values for 4 of the combinations, then I'd need to insert 4 records into the fact table, etcetera. All field values for the fact records would be identical except for the PK (generated by sequence), product codes, and prices.
I figure that I need some type of looping construct which would let me check whether or not a value was present for each productx field, and if so, do an insert/update step on the fact table with the desired field values. I'm just not sure how to do this in Pentaho.
Any ideas? All suggestions are welcome :)
Thank You,
Rakesh
Could you give a sample input and output for your scenario??
From your example data I can infer that if there are 10 different product codes and only 4 product prices you want to have 4 records inserted into your table. Is that so?
Well for a start you can add a constant value of 1 to those records by filtering for NOT NULL and then use an Group BY Step to count the number of 1's. This would give you the count. BTW it would be helpful if you could provide more details on what columns you would be loading as there are ways to make a PDI transformation execute multiple times
This question is something that a lot of people learning bioinformatics and new to DNA data analysis are struggling with:
Lets say I have 20 tables with the same column headings. Each table represents a patient sample and each row represents a locus (site) which has mutated in that sample. Each site is uniquely identified by two columns together - chromosome number and base number (eg. 1 and 43535, 1 and 33456, 1 and 3454353). There are several columns which give different characteristics of each mutation including a column called Gene which gives the gene at that site.. Multiple sites can be mutated in a gene - meaning the Gene column can have the same value multiple times in one table.
I want to query all these tables at the same time by lets say Gene. I input a value from the Gene column and I want as output the names of all the tables (samples) in which the gene name is present in the Gene column and also the entire line(s) (preferably) for each sample so that I can compare the characteristics of the mutation in that gene across multiple samples on one output page.
I also want to input a number say 4 and want as output a list of genes which have mutated in at least 4 of 20 patients (list of genes whose names appear in the Gene column in atleast 4 of 20 tables).
What is the "easiest way" to do this? What is the "best way" assuming I want to make more flexible queries, besides these two?
I am a MD, do not have any particular software expertise but I am willing to put in the necessary time to build this query system. A few lines of code won't put me off..
Eg data:
Func Gene ExonicFunc Chr Start End Ref Obs
exonic ACTRT2 nonsynonymous SNV 1 2939346 2939346 G A
exonic EIF4G3 nonsynonymous SNV 1 21226201 21226201 G A
exonic CSMD2 nonsynonymous SNV 1 34123714 34123714 C T
This is just a third of the columns. Multiple columns were removed to fit the page size here...
Thank you.
Create a view that union's all the tables together. You should probably add additional information about which table ti comes from:
create view allpatients as
select 'a' as whichtable, t.*
from tableA t
union all
select 'b' as whichtable, t.*
from tableB t
...
You might find that it is easier to "instantiate" the view by creating a table with all patients. Just have a stored procedure that recreates the table by combining the 20 tables.
Alternatively, you could find that you have large individual tables (millions of rows). In this case, you would want to treat each of the original tables as a partition.
If what you have is a bunch of Excel files, you can import them all into the same table, with a distinct column for patient id. There is no need to create 20 different tables for this -- in fact, it would be a bad idea.
Once you do, go to Access' query design, SQL view and use these queries:
To create a query that returns all fields for the input gene name:
select *
from gene_data
where gene = [GeneName]
To create a query that returns gene names that are mutated in more than 4 samples:
select gene
from
(select gene, sample_id
from gene_data
group by gene, sample_id) g
group by gene
having count(sample_id) > 4
After this, change to design view -- you'll see how to create similar queries using the GUI.