Lets Talk Parameters

Hello Discoverer Community,
I am toward the end of a project where the application leverages Discoverer as a reporting tool. I have found that the Discoverer reports I ported over to the new warehouse have saved the parameters that I ran and tested the reports with. This does not match the current report against the old warehouse because the fields are blank. A good exampl is a place where I as for a START_DATE and END_DATE that will be used to allow the user to select some data that is in a data range. When I tested the report and was building it, I did not put default values into these two parameters and ran the report for data in the range of 01-JAN-2007 to 31-DEC-2007. Now any time I run the report as any user, the two dates I tested the report with come up in the START_DATE and END_DATE parameter fields. How can I alter this? Some mentioned that PARAMETERS are specific to the user running them but I am finding this untrue.
1) Where in the EUL tables are the parameters saved for reports that are built?
2) Can this parameters be cleared out doing some SQL against the EUL tables?
3) If you cannot SQL parameters changes, is there another way to set this fields to a default value other than parameter defaults?
Also, I have noticed that when I log in as the report owner, change the default for START_DATE to anything and save the report this change does not seem to get reflected to the users running this report.
Could someone give a run down on parameters and how they are stored and how they can be changed after the fact?
Thanks to all that provide some feed back on my issue.
Whoops forgot to add my version information:
Desktop client: 10.1.2.48.18
EULL: 10.1.2.48.18
EUL: 5.1.1.0.0.0
Oracle DB:10g 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit
TTFN
Fletch
Message was edited by:
fletchma

Hi,
If you have the SaveLastUsedParamValue preference set to true (in the pref.txt server file or windows registry ) then the last parameters used will get saved within the workbook.
The workbook is saved within the EUL5_DOCUMENTS table and cannot be changed using SQL. You will need to open the report as the report owner and save the report without any parameter values set. Then when the report is opened by a user the parameter will either be empty or contain the default value.
Hope that helps,
Rod West

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From what I understand, Verizon needs to tell Tribune that their channel lineup has changed. And Tribune, Zap2it and Tivo all claim that Verizon hasn't done that. Verizon, of course, is silent on the matter and the "fiber solutions center" says there is nothing they can do right now and that channel info for the .tv and Verizon channels might get added to online guides in a few MONTHS!?!?!?!?!?!?
Why does this seem to be a problem with Verizon's lineup and no one else's? When I had Dish, Zap2it would have updated listings within 2 hours of new channel additions. When I had Charter, both Zap2it and Tivo had channel guide info for new channels usually the day BEFORE the channel was added. But Verizon doesn't seem to provide Tribune with new channel info / guide data at all.
Having had FIOS for less than two months, I'm not happy. I'm almost certain the goal is for Verizon to get me to dump my lifetime Tivo service and instead pay them $15.99 for their DVR. But trust me -- I'd rather go back to Charter first.
Message Edited by skierrob2 on 06-24-2009 10:44 AM

I do not understand why you folks are blaming Verizon for this. Please give me a moment to explain my theory.
First of all, I have been for a long time a very dissatisfied user of the FiOS Guide data. So dissatisfied that late last year I sent an email to Verizon's CEO expressing my dissatisfaction, and providing examples and pointers to various forum threads discussing the problem. I received maybe 4 or 5 phone calls about the issue, no resolution, but I was told the procedure for the FiOS Guide was this:
Each channel (say ESPN, whatever) develops the data, and sends it to FYI Television of Grand Prairie, TX (in the DFW area). FYI gathers the schedule info from all of the channel providers and once a day sends that data to Verizon. Verizon then inputs the data to the Guide and bingo, we see it, good or bad (lots and lots of bad IMO). I have no way to know if this is really the process, but this is the way it was explained and it makes sense to me.
Now, lets talk about one of the other guide providers for the Tivo or whatever. It seems to me that a very similar process would have to take place: channel to guide data collector to actual guide data provider (maybe the last two are one and the same?).
Now, where would Verizon be in this process for the other guide data providers? Seems to me nowhere, it should be the responsibility of the channel to notify the data provider that the channel is now on FiOS, what the channel name and number is, etc.
I am sure you will disagree with me, but where am I wrong? It seems to me you should be complaining to the channel providers, not Verizon.
(jumping into the foxhole....)
Justin
Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
IMG 1.6.2, Build 08.58
Keller, TX 76248

MSI NEW P.E. Series Video Card - GTX670 Power Edition 2GD5/OC with Twin Frozr 4

Glad to be back in the forum and I was been busy for awhile. By this time lots of PC hardware already came out especially from Nvidia. Just like today my share would be MSI's N670GTX PE 2GD5/OC video card.
First of all lets talk about the GTX670 GPU chip. This GPU is the younger sibling of GTX680 which uses the same 28nm GK104 chip but with one disabled shader cluster/core.The reference or standard GPU clock is 915Mhz with a turbo boost of 980 and as for the memory is concerned, it has a 256bit memory bus connected to a 2GB GDDR5 memory with speed of 6008Mhz. Just like with any Kepler based architecture, the card would also have all the goodies like "Adaptive V-Sync", "AA TXAA (Temporal Super Sampling)", supports "DX11.1" and improved 3D Vision Surround.
Moving on, let's check out now what MSI did with their GTX670 SKU based video card. The card is under a new Series named "Power Edition" (series comparison table below) and it comes factory overclocked from GPU clock of 915MHz to 1020MHz and Turbo boost of 980Mhz to 1080Mhz. It also comes with the 4th version of Twin Frozr Thermal Cooling design with a theme color of Black and Blue which matches the color of MSI's midrange to high-end motherboards as well. The dual 8cm PWM fan based cooler are equipped with Propeller Fan Blades which draws air better and now has the so called "Dust Removal Technology", basically as you startup your PC the fan will rotate counter clockwise for 30 seconds clearing the dust from the cooling heatsink. Adding a finishing touch, MSI equipped the video card with their Military Class III components ensuring the best performance, efficiency, higher overclocks and durability.
Additional Box Shots of the N670GTX PE OC
MSI Series Comparison Table
New Power Edition Series which is a notch higher than the basic Twin Frozr Series.
Below are some other basic specs of the card which not been mentioned above.
•CUDA Cores: 1344 Units
•Output: DisplayPort / HDMI / DL-DVI-I / DL-DVI-D
•Total Draw Power: 200W
•Card Dimension: 267x117x38mm
•DirectX: DX 11.1
•OpenGL: 4.2
•PCI Express: 3.0
•SLI: 3-Way Capable
•3D Vision Surround: 3 Output per Single Card
•Pure Video HD: Y
•HDCP: Y
•Minimum Power Requirement: 550W with 38A for the +12V Rail
Actual shot of the Rear Ports
The card is powered up by additional 2x 6Pin power connectors.
Five 8mm thick heatpipes design
In the future, there might be a GTX670 4GB GDDR5 version as you can see the empty spaces between the GPU memory chips
Bundled Accessories included in the package
•1x DVI to VGA Dongle
•2x 4 Pins Molex to 6 Pins VGA Power
•DVD Driver/Utility Disc
•Manual and Quick Guide
Test Sytem and Configuration
Processor: Intel i7 3770K @ Stock Speed / 4.8GHz / 4.849GHz
Cooler: Thermaltake Advanced Frio
Memory: 2x4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133Mhz
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 90GB
Motherboard: Z77A-GD80
Videocard: N670GTX Power Edition 2GB OC
PSU: Antec TPQ 1200
Softwares: Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, MSI Afterburner 2.2.2, Nvidia Forceware 304.48, GPU-Z 0.6.2, CPU-Z 1.60.1.x64, Futurmark Benchmark Softwares, HwBot Heaven DX11
Okey let the benchies begin 1st set of benchies @ stock settings
3dMark06 - 28799
Vantage - P31817
3dMark11 - P9530
Heaven DX11 - 1956.985
2nd Set - Processor @ 4.8GHz while the video card is still running at stock speed
3dMark06 - 35852 From the previous score of 28K it jumped to 35K. This is becuase 3dMark06, relies heavily on the clock frequency of the processor.
Vantage - P34377
3dMark11 - P9861
Heaven DX11 - 1986.539
3rd Set - i7 3770K @ 4.849GHz and the video card GPU clock @ 1070mhz with turbo boost at 1148Mhz and memory clock speed @ 1717MHz (6868Mhz effective rate)
3dmark06 - 36402
Vantage - P36194
3dMark11 - P10263
Heaven DX11 - 2140.223
That's it. I will share another hardware soon

@Bernhard
The card is not with me already :( it was just left for few days. Don't worry next time I will make some tests using Virtu MVP.
@Update
Afterburner 2.2.3 is already out and with this new version. You can overclock the PE better

My introduction and a hardware discussion.

Hello Adobe forums.
Its nice to meet you all. This is going to be a heavy first post, hopefully it will bloom into a great discussion.
I have been reading and learning and just wracking my brain around all the great info here for building a NLE system.
For starters let me introduce my self, I am Erik, and I have been a long ago user of Premier. In fact I was in undergrad when i made my first cut and ripple delete. that was 1999 and I think there wasnt even premier pro, my memory recalls premier 7 or something, then a year into college it changed to PP. I might have that all mixed up too.
So anywho, cut on adobe all thru undergrad and then went to grad school and learned the Avid system. I have no hang ups about either system, in my experience a cut is a cut and a dissolve is a dissolve no matter what system makes it.
I am now released from grad school and am out on my own again, in my life I will never be able to afford an avid system like our school had, with a nitrous, composers in the big lab and a huge audio booth with avid something for multi track mastering. I want to touch back to my roots there for I have chosen to return to adobe, in the flavor of production premium.
I am excited to see what's different and also about being able to work with out rendering, I remember the days when in order to see anything i had to first render, make a tiny change then render again, you all know this cycle too well i am sure.
I am a simple one thing at a time guy, independent, I dont unless specifically asked edit for clients. I write my shorts and full lengths, shoot them, edit them and play on the festival circuit.
So that is my intention for my NLE system.
I will say I am exceedingly happy with a lot of the info on this forum. In school sadly we are only taught the artisan side of editing and those areas, the digital science end is left to our own exploration. since starting my research I went from the basic concept of data rate of the camera and how big a memory card I need, to the more important how fast the memory card can write. Also applying this knowledge to the concepts in the computer for the NLE, so a big thanks to the guys I see adding valuable info such as, Harm, ADK boys, Videoguys and other members with great input. Thank to you all.
After all that lets talk about the prospected build.
CPU: 3960, socket 2011. I was satisfied with a lga 1155 but you all convinced me i can have a longer living machine with room for improvements over the next few years.
MBO: ASUS X79 sabertooth.
Ram: Gskill ripjaws Z 1600 64gig pack.
GPU: asus gtx 680 4gb ddr5
ASUS dvd bruner/ drive sata
Cooler Master 1200w silent pro gold
Case: Cooler Master haf 932 advanced
Cooling: Cooler Master Seidon Liquid cooler. I wanted air cooling but in order to allow room for the ram this was the best solution.
SSD1: OS and programs, Intel 335 series 240gb, I know many will say thats larger than i need, but it works for me.
SSD2: Render and export, Intel 335 series 240gb
Hdd1: Projects, 1tb wd black caviar 7200rpm sata 3.0 32mb cache
hdd2: Cache "same as above"
hdd3: Media"ditto"
Now as I explore the MB more and more I have learned that there is an extra 2 sata 6 on the MB. AS learned from Harm in another post those 2 extra satas are on the maverick which shares with the gpu, however this MB does not suffer a performance loss of the gpu if i was to use those two slots for later drive expansion. Again for later when money allows.
Now lets discuss my personal work flow.
I shoot nikon d800, with a Pix 220 external recorder. I use DNxHD codec at 220Mbs @8 bitdepth.
My editing style is one thing at a time. I am a simple man, when i cut, i cut. I don't have the multitasking ability to cut one project while doing effects in AE and render in the background. Just too much for me to do at once.
I am a patient man, and like i said above I dont have clients so when I render/export I usually just walk away or go eat/sleep whatever. My time is my own so my deadlines are for festival entries. Of course I want as quick as possible, who would turn down speed?
Going back to one thing at a time, this is where i became strange from my fellow students, when I am finished with a project I am done. I dont go back and tweak like many of my former colleagues. When I make the export, bar any major problems, the video file is placed on a back up external hdd and a disc, then the work computer is formatted and ready for the next project.
Me thinks that covers all aspects of my workflow, if there is anything more specific you need to know please ask.
My questions for discussion.
first and foremost, look over the parts and please point out any things you see as funky, missing or things that will have issues that you learned from your experience.
I know you will all suggest a raid0 some where. For this point in time I would like to stick to single drives with single tasks to keep them from reading and writing at the same time or at least to a minimum. I like to have stability of my data, but I also understand that perhaps there is a speed requirement for my codec to play back smoothly. So if I must, I am open to raid0 in the future when i can afford a stable backup of all the stuff.
Leading to my next question. Of a few posts out there in adobe forums, the general idea is a hdd can playback pretty heavy duty video if the hdd is purposed for video only. I am using 220Mbs would the WD CB be able to handle that if dedicated?
please look at the intended use for my drives, I am only copying what i have seen as advice on the forums, but would like some input as to the how and why you would make one drive as the cache, media and projects drives. any other suggestions for what would be a better use of single drives?
i need your help to educate me in some things i couldn't find on my own. Several times i see members talk about streams, is a stream meaning playing the timeline in multiple monitors? or is it also refering to multiple video tracks. video 1,2,3,4, playing at once?
Are filters considered streams? since i shoot dslr i have to automatically use 3 filters off the bat, rolling shutter remove, color, and a touch of sharpness. sorry for the basic info like i said i was taught the artisan side of editing first.
I am very used to taking my footage from the camera storing it, then importing and transcoding in the Avid to a low low bit rate to make the editing smooooth. A bit rate of 36Mb or so, then after picture lock, connecting with my orginal media for the color correction post effects and export.
since it has been sooo long and I have learned so much, I would assume that PP allows for this type of online off line editing style, does it?
Personally I would rather not have to transcode and edit natively, which as I can see, is what adobe is selling since cs5
I think thats a great place to stop. You guys dont need to write me a text book for an answer, like i did above, please point to links and I will read. If you fingers really want to type away and I will read it too.
Thank You all for your time and input.
ESR

Well, I don't like to make a thread and then just leave it unfinished.
The beast is built, runs cool, looks cool and in my experience is blazing fast even at stock speeds.
I have not begun to overclock yet as I dont fully understand how and I am researching the how tos and theory behind it. I dont want to go changing voltages and cook everything. Ill get there though, one day.
No major build issues, in factthis is the first machine I have built in 13 years, and back then usb 2.0 just came out and the standard device connect was IDE ribbon, plus a 200gb hard drive was THEE monster, for the public that is.
For those of you out there looking at this forum and nervous about assembling your first PC, I say to you, do you research, take you time and make sure all parts will work in balance with your intended use and then assemble.
Other than childbirth, the simultaneous feelings of terror and excitement are something you must experience, its the ultimate high.
I have waded thru some issues and a learning curve in the UEFI bios these days. Like I said above, last time i built a computer there was no bios, I used to have to put the jumpers in the right place. I kinda miss that, but dont get me wrong, on screen bios, woof, i love it.
I would like to discuss some things with you guys as there are some oddities I want to root out.
First, I noticed that running asus utilities, such as, gpu tweak, ai suite ii, conflicts with adobe software.
How? it slows it down a bit here and there, and it seems to cause some crash, force quit not bsod, when closing adobe programs. what happens and how i know a crash is coming is when closing PR, the second monitor will stay full screen on the last image and not move. If i dont hit the windows button or alt tab to another program it will sit there for hours, after the tab or windows key then windows says it stopped responding and to force it to close.
any one else having similar issues? or any recommendations as to some setting in windows/bios/adobe that i may have over looked.
This only happens to me when i have ai suite and gpu tweak open. all other times with out those programs running adobe is smooth as glass.
the other weird thing I have noticed on several forums is the Asus utilities programs are buggy. I was experiencing incredibly loooong lag after boot up when having the ai suite ii on the active services list. it was strange, boot into windows was fine but it seems like the suite either has in incredible amount of files to open or it just conflicts with windows.
here is the exact scenario, windows welcomes you with the sound, you wait a second to react, no hour glass, open the win tab and select either computer, or resource manager, when your me and trying to see what is making the system work so hard and long, the tab sits there for 1min doing nothing, then drops a bit leaving the graphic glitches and sits there longer. finally your window pops up and then everything is hunkey dorey till your next restart.
after disabling anything asus in the services tab i have not had this issue for a week now.
do you guys with asus MBO use their software? or do you guys just skip it all together? and have you experienced these bugs?
one thing about this long lag issue that looms in the back of my mind (even with it hopefully solved) is i never had this type of lag while on the OS ssd. After I plugged in the other 6 drives the next boot was absolutely awful. It took me 30mins to format each one, due to i couldn't control the mouse for more than second and then it would register my movement and shoot me across the screen so i had to baby step it back to the drive format window.
After getting all the hdds formatted it made the lag intermittent like stated above.
all drivers are current, ssds are on latest firmware. I had a fight with the marvell though, it would always register my two drives on it as unpluggable devices and i could actually click safely remove them and the would disappear. but after reading and researching i got it all setup right. I mention this because it bothers me in the back of my mind even though the issue appears to be solved from the drive end and the asus software end.
share with me if any of you have had this type of experience on your build and what you did to overcome it incase i missed a step in bios or in windows setup.
to clarify further:
I run ahci mode on intel and marvell. not a raid man.
the ports are filled as such.
intel sata 6 has my os/programs ssd and the render/export ssd.
the asus dvd burner is on a intel sata 3
the other 3 intels are just wd black hdd
the marvel has 2 additional wd hdd.
like i said the massive lag cam after i plugged all that in, formatting made it intermittent and removing asus software seems to have solved it. just looking for experiences and any missed steps.
second wierd thing is, and perhaps this is why you guys call it QUIRKtime. I can not export dnxhd quiktime format to my render/export drive. It is a intel 335 ssd with latest firmware, (sorry Harm, the specs were great and the price was too) i have all permissions on the drive, but every time i try to export to it in that format i get the export faild can not create source file. All other formats work with out a hitch, just dnxhd quicktime at any resolution.
and lastly, i must be an idiot but i cant seem to get PR to render my audio effects, or that there just not big enough to place them on the drive. its odd, PR is set to have audio previews on its own HDD, and PR creates the folder for renders/previews but never puts anything into them.
Also when i click render audio, its instant playback, faster than i can hit home and l. I have tried to make the files complex with many many filters and effects on audio but no dice.
exported time lines, and sending projects to SG, AE, audition everything works just fine, but its like i will fill up my audio previews HDD with nothing but empty folders. anyone had this issue before? I have settings set to render audio at the same time as video.
those are the only bugs as of now to report. this sytem like i said at stock speed is blindingly fast for me and my work flow, I see a loooong life for this computer.
thank you for reading and thank you all for your input on my little issues, it will save my hair.
Erik.

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