A Data Warehouse Mining Tool Stephen Turner Chris Frala

 WARNING : There are A LOT of slides….but they are step-by-step examples  Learn how to gain access  Take a look around  Build some queries and then learn how to manipulate them to serve us better! 2

 Building some queries  Summary of Cost Centers for a BU  Manipulating existing queries  Summary of Cost Centers for a PI  Details of Payroll for a BU  Adding filter for a Time Range  Details of Payroll for an Individual  Adding a Sort feature  Outstanding Invoices for a BU 3

 Icon looks like this  If you don’t have the icon or you do or it is not active, then here is how to gain access. 4

 Via Information Technology Services website 5

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 Now that we have two tables, we need to combine them  Right click on one them and select “Query Builder”  Then in the command bar, select “Join Tables”  And then “Add Tables” 16

This is the default of joining two tables and what is used 99% of the time 17

 This is the default of joining two tables and what is used 99% of the time 18

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 This is great, but what if I wanted to pull in the Category? 25

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 Let’s save what we have done first 30

 What if, we need to know it by PI instead? 31

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 If I have not been to a Table in a while, I usually just Double Click the table. 41

 Now I look for things I can use. For this example we will use  BU, CCN, Pay Amount, Benefits 42

 Now right click on “LABOR_CURRENT” and select “ Query Builder ” 43

 Add a Filter 44

 Selecting multiple BUs 45

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 But I wanted to know WHO was paid on a given time period.  Right click on the Query Builder 48

 Adding a new field 49

 Adding a new Filter 50

 Now let’s filter by a “range” 51

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 For this example, we will look all the payments for the month of July

 Remember, we can “Send To” excel 54

 To save, go to “File” and “Save As” 55

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 Now right click on “LABOR_CURRENT” and select “ Query Builder ” 58

 Adding a filter 59

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 Adding a “Sort” 63

 Ascending or Descending 64

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 Combining multiple tables (5) into one query 66

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 Right click on the top table and select “ Query Builder ” 70

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 When joining these, we sometimes see the error message below.  Usually because column names that are not actually the same. 72

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 When combining multiple tables, I usually RUN the query before doing a Filter. 76

 Unfiltered  186,194,858 lines 77

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 A lot of information  Hopefully a lot of good/useful information  There is a TON of information out there, so don’t get afraid to get dirty playing in the data 86