How to Best Use Business Intelligence to Your Advantage |
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How to Best Use Business Intelligence to Your Advantage It is no big secret that today s businesses rely heavily on data and the information it delivers about their companies Whether it is for the purpose of customer acquisition improving operational performance or understanding competitors all of t
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Business Intelligence in Information Technology |
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Business Intelligence in Information Technology IT stands for Information Technology Information Technology is a system designed to gather process or distribute information IT can be inspected in terms of the following three groupings; the data gathering the data processing and the data distribut
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Breaking up XML into Relational Data |
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Breaking up XML into Relational Data While the preceding example shows how to construct an XML representation over relational data the example in this section illustrates how you can shred XML data back into relational data This reverse operation can be useful if your application works with relation
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Querying Data with Oracle XQuery |
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Querying Data with Oracle XQuery Starting with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 you can take advantage of a full featured native XQuery engine integrated with the database With Oracle XQuery you can accomplish various tasks involved in developing PHP Oracle XML applications operating on any kind of dat
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Using XMLType Views |
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Using XMLType Views Using XMLType Views XMLType views provide a convenient way to construct XML representations of relational data without physically migrating that data into XML Once written an XMLType view may be used in various queries making them simpler and so increasing their readability mosgo
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Retrieving XML Data |
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Retrieving XML DataTo retrieve XML data from an XMLType table you can use a SELECT SQL statement just as you would if you had to query a relational table For example to select the employee with the id set to 100 from the employees XMLType table discussed in the preceding section you might issue the
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Business Intelligence Tips |
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Business Intelligence Tips Understand Your Organization first Truly understanding your company and how it works is perhaps one of the most important Business Intelligence tips anyone can offer This includes understanding the business itself the processes involved the data and how that data is used b
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Using XMLType for Handling XML Data in the Database |
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Using XMLType for Handling XML Data in the Database Being an object type XMLType can not only be used to store XML data in the database but also to operate on that data via its built in methods Regardless of the storage model you choose XMLType provides a set of XML specific methods to operate on XM
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Using Oracle Database for Storing, Modifying, and Retrieving XML Data |
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Using Oracle Database for Storing Modifying and Retrieving XML Data With Oracle XML DB you have various XML storage and XML processing options allowing you to achieve the required level of performance and scalability One of the most interesting things about Oracle XML DB is that it allows you to per
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Performing XSLT Transformations inside the Database |
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Performing XSLT Transformations inside the Database Now that you have the employees XSL stylesheet stored in the database and the xmlusr schema is permitted to access the hr employees table you can create a script that will instruct the database to build an HTML page based on the data stored in hr e
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