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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Accessing Repository Resources with SQL |
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Accessing Repository Resources with SQL In fact Oracle XML DB repository resources are stored in a set of database tables and indexes which can be accessed via SQL You are not supposed to access those tables directly Instead Oracle XML DB provides two public views RESOURCE VIEW and PATH VIEW through
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Performing DML Operations on XML Schema Based XMLType Views |
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Performing DML Operations on XML Schema Based XMLType Views Analyzing the underlying query of the empSch v view discussed in the preceding section you may note that each attribute of the EMP T object used in the select list maps to a certain column of a single table namely emps What this means in pr
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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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