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Trudy
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I am a new WebFOCUS user who is having issues pulling back the correct student record from SGBSTDN? I'm having issues with the SGBSTDN_TERM_CODE_EFF field logic. I was wondering if there was anyone who has addressed this issue already.

Thanks

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GavinL
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I know nothing about SGBSTDN, but these links might help as this topic has been discussed in the past.

http://forums.informationbuild...1057331/m/1351009692

http://forums.informationbuild...1057331/m/4021051652



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eric.woerle
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Trudy,

Its a horrible design the way Banner does it, but unfortunately you have to work with it.

To get around this issue, I've created views for each table that uses effective term. The view essential will translate the SGBSTDN_TERM_CODE_EFF into effective beginning and end dates based on the next record in the table.

I wasn't here when they first developed the ETL into our data warehouse otherwise I would have had them build it right into it. That is my best suggestion. Build the Effective Start and End Dates into your warehouse. It will be a huge help.

If you are connecting directly to Banner (Which you shouldn't be by the way), then you might be able to leverage some existing views to accomplish what you need. Take a look at whats available from the SATURN user as far as views are concerned.


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Trudy
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Has anyone using Banner written procedures that can be brought into WebFOCUS as a master table? I know we can do this with oracle views, I have been told that a procedure would be more efficient. When I talk to my Oracle guru's they don't know anyway of doing this.


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eric.woerle
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Trudy,

Are you refering to stored procedures? You can create a stored procedure in oracle and then create a synonym off of it in WebFOCUS if thats what you really want to do. I'm not sure thats going to make things anymore efficient for you as Banner uses views in these situations. You can look at BANINST1.SGVSTDN if you want an idea of how they create their views. That one is the enrolled student view. You can also try joining on defined fields and use NEXT or LAST, but I wouldn't try using those unless you are 8.1.04 or higher as NEXT/LAST don't translate to LEAD()/LAG() (for Oracle) until 8104. It will make for a very inefficient query if you use those in an earlier version.

If you are looking for the most efficient way to do it, I Would still say its bringing these tables in to a data warehouse and adding Effective Start and End dates (or term) to your SGBSTDN equivalent table.


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