OBIEE Answers Beginners Guide Part III

Executing a Direct Database Request

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Table of Contents 1. Creating First Requests in Answers.3 2. Adding Filters.10 3. Combine two Requests Using Set Operations...15 4. Execute a Direct Database request..18 5. Logical SQL generated request for a request.22 6. Modify Views.26 7. Add a Column Selector to a Request...36 8. Perform some general tasks while working with views..38 9. Show results in a standard table...42 10. Using Legend, Narrative, Ticker and Logical SQL views..47 11. Display results in a Gauge view..52 12 Display results in Pivot Table View...58

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4. Executing a Direct Database Request

1. To execute a request directly from database set the privilege to allow the Administrator user to create and issue direct database requests. Any user can execute a direct database request, provided that the Administrator has granted the user this privilege. Click on the Settings link in the dashboard and select Administration. The Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration window will open in a new browser window.

Click on the Manage Privileges link. The Privilege Administration window opens.

2. Scroll down to the Answers section in Privilege Administration window. Locate the Execute Direct Database Requests privilege.

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3. Click on (not permitted). The next Change Privilege Permissions window opens click on the Show users and groups link.

4. Will show all the users and groups in the current window Change Privilege Permissions.

5. Click on Administrator click Add to give the Administrator the privilege to execute direct database requests. Click on Finished in the Change Privilege Permissions window Click on Finished in the

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Privilege Administration window Click Close Window in the Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration window. 6. Create a simple request in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers to compare the results of this request with the results of a direct database request.

7. Check result for the query

8. Create and execute a direct database request click Create Direct Request on the Answers start page. Enter Connection Pool in the Connection Pool field with the double quotation marks. This is the name of the connection pool specified in the Physical layer of the repository. 9. Enter the SQL statement in the SQL Statement field. Click Validate SQL and Retrieve Columns and verify that the appropriate columns appear under Result Columns. Here column 2 is for UNIT_SALES its not showing its name but data type is showing, this doesn`t

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10. Click the Results tab from the top of dashboard and verify.

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