Help with the problem query

Hi,
I have another query running slow when executed from cognos. It is also not returning any output continues to execute,
with "Union15" as (
select distinct CASE WHEN(substr(to_char(FLOOR("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."DISC_MON"/100)), 1, 4) IS NULL) OR (case substr(to_char(FLOOR("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."DISC_MON"/100)), 5, 1) when '1' then 'Q1' when '2' then 'Q2' when '3' then 'Q3' when '4' then 'Q4' end IS NULL) THEN NULL ELSE (substr(to_char(FLOOR("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."DISC_MON"/100)), 1, 4)||case substr(to_char(FLOOR("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."DISC_MON"/100)), 5, 1) when '1' then 'Q1' when '2' then 'Q2' when '3' then 'Q3' when '4' then 'Q4' end ) END "QUARTER", "EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."PAT_KEY" "Cases_Using_Energy", 0 "Total_Cases"
from "MDM_DBA"."EES_ENERGY_MASTER" "EES_ENERGY_MASTER", "MDM_DBA"."EES_CONS_PROV" "EES_CONS_PROV"
where "EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."DISC_MON">=2006101 and "EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."PDCT_CAT"='Energy' and substr("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."ICD_CODE", 1, 2)='68-gyn' and "EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."MANUFACTURER"='EES' and "EES_CONS_PROV"."CONS_06_09_YN" in ('N', 'Y') and "EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."PROV_ID"="EES_CONS_PROV"."PROV_ID" union
select CASE WHEN(substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 1, 4) IS NULL) OR (case substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 5, 1) when '1' then 'Q1' when '2' then 'Q2' when '3' then 'Q3' when '4' then 'Q4' end IS NULL) THEN NULL ELSE (substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 1, 4)||case substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 5, 1) when '1' then 'Q1' when '2' then 'Q2' when '3' then 'Q3' when '4' then 'Q4' end ) END "QUARTER", 0 "Cases_Using_Energy", count("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."CASES") "Total_Cases"
from "MDM_DBA"."MVW_EES_ICD_STATS" "MVW_EES_ICD_STATS", "MDM_DBA"."EES_CONS_PROV" "EES_CONS_PROV", "MDM_DBA"."EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV" "EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"
where "MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR">=20061 and "MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."ICD_GROUP"='68-gyn' and "EES_CONS_PROV"."CONS_06_09_YN" in ('N', 'Y') and "EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"."PDCT_CAT"='Energy' and "EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"."MANUFACTURER"='EES' and "MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."PROV_ID"="EES_CONS_PROV"."PROV_ID" and "MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."PROV_ID"="EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"."PROV_ID"
group by CASE WHEN(substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 1, 4) IS NULL) OR (case substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 5, 1) when '1' then 'Q1' when '2' then 'Q2' when '3' then 'Q3' when '4' then 'Q4' end IS NULL) THEN NULL ELSE (substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 1, 4)||case substr(to_char(FLOOR("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR")), 5, 1) when '1' then 'Q1' when '2' then 'Q2' when '3' then 'Q3' when '4' then 'Q4' end ) END)
select "T1"."C0" "levelkey", "T1"."C1" "Cases_Using_Energy", "T0"."C0" "Cases_Using_Energy1", "T1"."C2" "Total_Cases"
from (
select count(distinct "Union15"."Cases_Using_Energy") "C0"
from "Union15") "T0", (
select "Union15"."QUARTER" "C0", count(distinct "Union15"."Cases_Using_Energy") "C1", sum("Union15"."Total_Cases") "C2"
from "Union15"
group by "Union15"."QUARTER") "T1"The explain plan is as follows,
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
| Id | Operation                             | Name                        | Rows | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                      |                              |     1 |    50 |       |    22 |
|   2 | TEMP TABLE TRANSFORMATION            |                              |       |       |       |       |
|   1 |   RECURSIVE EXECUTION                 | SYS_LE_2_0                   |       |       |       |       |
|   0 |    INSERT STATEMENT                   |                              | 3053 |   128K|       | 1372 |
|   1 |     LOAD AS SELECT                    |                              |       |       |       |       |
|   2 |      SORT UNIQUE                      |                              | 3053 |   128K|   376K| 1372 |
|   3 |       UNION-ALL                       |                              |       |       |       |       |
|* 4 |        HASH JOIN                      |                              | 3052 |   128K|       |   185 |
|* 5 |         TABLE ACCESS FULL             | EES_CONS_PROV                |   622 | 3732 |       |     2 |
|* 6 |         TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID   | EES_ENERGY_MASTER            | 3055 |   110K|       |   182 |
|* 7 |          INDEX RANGE SCAN             | IDX_ENERGY_PDCT_CAT          | 1978 |       |       | 2478 |
|   8 |        SORT GROUP BY                  |                              |     1 |    40 |       | 1160 |
|* 9 |         TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID   | EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV            |     4 |    72 |       |     1 |
| 10 |          NESTED LOOPS                 |                              |     1 |    40 |       | 1157 |
| 11 |           NESTED LOOPS                |                              |     1 |    22 |       | 1156 |
|* 12 |            TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MVW_EES_ICD_STATS            |     1 |    16 |       | 1155 |
|* 13 |             INDEX RANGE SCAN          | MVWICDSTATS_DISCQTR_IDX      |    13M|       |       | 26068 |
|* 14 |            TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| EES_CONS_PROV                |     1 |     6 |       |     1 |
|* 15 |             INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | EES_CONS_PROV_PK             |     1 |       |       |       |
|* 16 |           INDEX RANGE SCAN            | PROV_ID_IDX_2                |    65 |       |       |     1 |
|   3 |   MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN                |                              |     1 |    50 |       |    22 |
|   4 |    VIEW                               |                              |     1 |    13 |       |     3 |
|   5 |     SORT GROUP BY                     |                              |     1 |    13 |       |       |
|   6 |      VIEW                             |                              | 3053 | 39689 |       |     3 |
|   7 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL               | SYS_TEMP_0FD9D68B3_C112F95D | 3053 |   110K|       |     3 |
|   8 |    VIEW                               |                              |     1 |    37 |       |    19 |
|   9 |     SORT GROUP BY                     |                              |     1 |    37 |       |    19 |
| 10 |      VIEW                             |                              | 3053 |   110K|       |     3 |
| 11 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL               | SYS_TEMP_0FD9D68B3_C112F95D | 3053 |   110K|       |     3 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   4 - access("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."PROV_ID"="EES_CONS_PROV"."PROV_ID")
   5 - filter("EES_CONS_PROV"."CONS_06_09_YN"='N' OR "EES_CONS_PROV"."CONS_06_09_YN"='Y')
   6 - filter("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."DISC_MON">=2006101 AND SUBSTR("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."ICD_CODE",1,2)='68-gyn'
              AND "EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."MANUFACTURER"='EES')
   7 - access("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."PDCT_CAT"='Energy')
   9 - filter("EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"."PDCT_CAT"='Energy' AND "EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"."MANUFACTURER"='EES')
12 - filter("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."ICD_GROUP"='68-gyn')
13 - access("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR">=20061 AND "MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."DISC_QTR" IS NOT NULL)
14 - filter("EES_CONS_PROV"."CONS_06_09_YN"='N' OR "EES_CONS_PROV"."CONS_06_09_YN"='Y')
15 - access("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."PROV_ID"="EES_CONS_PROV"."PROV_ID")
16 - access("MVW_EES_ICD_STATS"."PROV_ID"="EES_HOSP_CHG_PROV"."PROV_ID")
Please help with some solution.

OK: the third parameter of the SUBSTR function indicates the (maximum) length of the returnd string.
Therefore SUBSTR("EES_ENERGY_MASTER"."ICD_CODE",1,2) could possibly be '68' , but never '68-gyn'.
'68-gyn' is just 4 characters too long.
Urs

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"systemctl enable syslog-ng.service"
and got the following message;
"ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service' '/etc/systemd/system/syslog.service'
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service'"
Since it doesn't exclusively say that something went wrong (at least as far as I can understand), I pondered the message a bit, but moved on to try and start dbus by issuing
"systemctl enable dbus.service",
to which I got the reply
"The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl."
This I can only assume is an error message of some sort, especially seeing as it says "not meant to be enabled using systemctl", but the wiki rather explicitly states that that is what I am supposed to do.
I dare not move on (or attempt to start other daemons) without further advice, as I fear I might break my system. Any ideas as to how to solve this would be greatly appreciated.

tcmdvm wrote:
The message;
"ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service' '/etc/systemd/system/syslog.service'
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service'"
indicates that running "systemctl enable syslog.service" is now enabled.
If you try running sytemtctl enable <whatever>.service and get
"The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl." means there is no <whatever>.service file available to enable.
The dbus.service as far as I know is already enabled when installing systemd and doesn't require any action.
Ah, right, systemd is chatty (I'm of the old skool; if nothing is/goes wrong, a program should keep quiet).
Oh ok, then I should dare more on.
ZekeSulastin wrote:To be a bit more precise, it means the service is there but it's only used as a dependency for something else; the [Install] section of the file is what tells systemctl where to link it and such. Also, where exactly in the wiki were you told explicitly to 'systemctl enable dbus.service'? I can easily point you to the sections in both installation guides that tell you how to set things like /etc/localtime et. al (also `man 7 archlinux`), but not the one that said to manually enable dbus.
Ah, I see; and well, I was told right here, going from the top, to "Enable Daemons formerly listed in rc.conf [...] For a translation of the daemons from /etc/rc.conf to systemd services, see: List of Daemons and Services.", and, using the list, dbus is mentioned there, as you can see. Since I started from the top, I did not know that you didn't need to enable that service. Perhaps it could be added to the descriptions of the relevant services in the Wiki which ones are autostarted?
ZekeSulastin wrote:Lastly, I don't think trying to continue conversations from a closed thread is a very good idea, let alone doing it in a giant undivided wall of text that makes it quite difficult to pick out much any single topic.
Meh, I directly refer to the relevant people, they can easily see their own old posts in the previous thread, etcetera... I think te ones who have something to say will be able to find my replies to their previous statements (or so I hope). For now, as everyone can see, I quote stuff (but man might I make some huge posts if I ever post again in the future, if I quote what I reply to).
fsckd wrote:This is not really a technical support subforum. Moving from Arch Discussion to Newbie Corner.
Ah ok, thanks (or perhaps a cautious thanks? Moving it to "newbie corner" might, after all, be a subtle insult...).
tomegun wrote:It is not really possible to follow your message as you don't quote what you are replying to. Moreover, as the thread was closed I think that means we should stop the discussion ;-)
Hmm, I think it means cop-out for lack or proper arguments/responses... But ok, I'll let it slide, for now (mainly as I can't do much else).
tomegun wrote:You are not meant to enable dbus.service as it is enabled unconditionally. To check the enabled/disabled state of your services try "systemctl list-unit-files". "static" means that you are not supposed to enabled/disable it.
Ah ok, thank you. Now, having abandoned all hope, I'll start configuring again and see how it goes... May the void protect me. If I die, grieve not for me, but remember me in the fight against hard-to-configure applications.
(edit/addon)
Actually, what am I supposed to do with "hwclock"? the List of Daemons only says that I shouldn't run that in tandem with ntpd, but I'm not running ntpd, so... How do I get hwclock with systemd?
Edited for additional question.
Last edited by incassum (2012-11-07 08:44:42)

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