1. Population Selection Tips
Diane Garvin
Itawamba Community College
Phone
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2. Most Important Tip – Know Your Data
Know the data fields, business policies and practices of the college.
Example:
If you want to find the number of female applicants, you need to know
How an applicant is entered in Banner?
How a person’s gender is entered in Banner?
It takes time and experience to gain knowledge of the system.
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3. POPULATION SELECTION CONCEPT
People in
Database
Selection Rules
or Criteria
Selected Population of
Individuals who
Satisfy Rules

4. THE SELECTED POPULATION
May be used in letter generation.
May be used in some Banner reports.
Example: Student schedules
May be used for “simple” reports.
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5. Examples General Person Recruiting Academic History
Find the number of (or get a list of) person records with missing birth dates.
Recruiting
Find the number of (or get a list of) recruits from a particular high school.
Academic History
Find the number of students graduating with honors.
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6. Admissions Location Management General Student Accounts Receivable
Find the number of applicants of a particular gender or ethnicity.
Location Management
Find the number of students requesting housing in a particular dormitory.
General Student
Find the number of students in a particular major.
Accounts Receivable
Find the number of students who have been charged a parking fine.
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7. Interactive Help
Normally, a table corresponds to a block of a Banner form.
Use Dynamic Help from the Banner form
Put cursor on the data item
Select Help, then Dynamic Help Query
Field name is the column name
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8. Visualizing a Table
Think of a table as a grid having rows and columns–similar to a spreadsheet.
Each row of the grid corresponds to a record.
Each column of the grid corresponds to a field in the record.
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9. A Simplified View of SPBPERS
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10. GLRSLCT
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11. Select Population Selection uses the SQL select statement.
In a population selection you can select only PIDMs. (A Personal IDentification Master is an internal identification number that is created when person and non-person records are entered on SPAIDEN.)
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12. From
The From clause indicates which table in the database contains the information being used in the selection.
The From clause must include the table used in the Select clause.
The From clause also must include any other table(s) involved in the Where clause.
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13. GLRSLCT
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14. Simple Steps GLRSCLT – complete and save the form.
GLBDATA – Run through job submission.
View results on GLIEXTR.
Can be used in any job that has the population selection variables.
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15. GLIEXTR
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16. Dates are Funny
Date columns have date AND time so you can’t select a date with ‘=‘. Use ‘>=‘ or ‘<=‘.
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17. Rules – In Takes the place of multiple OR rules.
Enclose list of values with (). Separate with “,”.
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18. Rules – Like
Wild card is required.
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19. Copy Population Selection
On the second page of GLRSLCT.
Can copy to a different application.
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20. Summary The most important tip is KNOW YOUR DATA
The second most important is CHECK YOUR RESULTS
The best way to learn is to do. Try some for yourself
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