Re: analytics reference

  • From: Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Adric Norris <landstander668@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:46:40 -0500

I had to use a combination of resources together.  I the Oracle Data
Warehousing documentation (believe it or not) helped me a ton - reading the
documentation (in order of each function) and then looking at examples from
different blogs to see the query in action (and various forms it could
take).

Then I took some of the most useful functions and started writing them
against database tables where I wanted some details - so I could get used
to using them:

Links:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25554/analysis.htm#DWHSG021

Helpful usage examples:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/rank-dense-rank-first-last-analytic-functions.php
http://www.orafaq.com/node/55
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2013/13-mar/o23sql-1906475.html

Book that was really helpful (but was (IMHO) a rehash of the Oracle
documentation on the matter in better form):
http://www.rampant-books.com/book_0802_advanced_sql_programming.htm by
Laurent Schneider

Also Laurent Schneider has several posts scattered around the web with some
good examples.

Best of luck!

Chris

P.S. When you finally write a MODEL statement and understand it and can
manipulate it, it's AWESOME.  (I've only done it a handful of times and
would have to refresh my own use of it because I never see it in use by
anyone besides me)



On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Adric Norris <landstander668@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good reference (preferably with lots of examples)
> on the use of Oracle analytic functions? It tends to be something of a
> struggle whenever I use the beasties, and I'd like to get my head wrapped
> around them a bit better.
>
> Thanx!
>
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