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The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By : Edward Cody
Book Image

The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By: Edward Cody

Overview of this book

Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting is one of the many products in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management software suite, an industry-leading business intelligence software package. The primary focus of the Interactive Reporting product is to provide strong relational querying and data analysis capabilities. It also provides the capability to disseminate information throughout an enterprise. There is a very steep learning curve for most users of this tool.This book examines the power of the Interactive Reporting Web Client software, focusing on the key features of each section of the product. The author's experience in developing and supporting Interactive Reporting users is very well documented in this book. The goal is to educate you on every useful feature of the product, enabling you to gather information from various sources and process it to produce meaningful results that help you to spot problems and analyze trends necessary for business decisions.The book starts with a quick introduction to the product interface and the EPM Workspace, with explanation of importing and provisioning. It then takes you through each section from building a query and data model to building graphical displays of the data in a logical sequence. The report sections and interactive dashboards are also discussed at length. The book also covers advanced features of the product and provides you with the information necessary to build the foundation for creating complex queries and computations using the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Combining queries


When two or more separate queries need to be combined into a single dataset, Interactive Reporting provides an interface for combining queries using the Union, Union All, Intersection, and Minus operators. In SQL, these specific operators are specified between two queries driving the behavior of interest. Each operator is defined as follows:

  • The Union operator combines distinct records between both queries. If the same record exists in both queries, the record is only returned once from the database.

  • The Union All operator combines all the records between both queries.

  • The Intersection operator returns the rows that match between both queries. If the same record appears in both queries, the record is returned. If the record does not match, it is excluded from the query results.

  • The Minus operator returns all of the records from the first query that does not have a match in the second query.

Note

The order of the queries is important where the first query is the driving...