How to find folders that dont return any results

Question

Hi experts
Is there a quick way to do this, such as querying the EUL5 tables?
Cheers
Tim

Answer 1

Hi Tim
When you say folders that don't return results, do you mean queries using those folders and getting no values?
If so, then yes there is a way to do this but only if you have enabled the gathering of statistics. If you have this enabled and most shops do then every time a qurey is run the table called EUL5_QPP_STATS is updated.
The following script will list out the worksheets and workbooks that have been run but returned 0 rows:
SELECT
QPP.QS_DOC_OWNER                 WORKBOOK_OWNER,
QPP.QS_DOC_NAME                  WORKBOOK_NAME,
QPP.QS_DOC_DETAILS               WORKSHEET_NAME,
QPP.QS_CREATED_BY                RUN_BY,
TRUNC(MAX(QPP.QS_CREATED_DATE))  LAST_USED_DATE,
COUNT(QPP.QS_ID)                 TIMES_USED
FROM
EUL5_QPP_STATS QPP
WHERE
QPP.QS_CREATED_DATE >= ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, -18) AND
QS_NUM_ROWS = 0
GROUP BY
QPP.QS_DOC_OWNER,
QPP.QS_DOC_NAME,
QPP.QS_CREATED_BY,
QPP.QS_DOC_DETAILS
ORDER BY 1,2,3;
If this helps then the following script will decode QPP_STATS and show you the fields that were used:
SELECT
QS.QS_DOC_OWNER    USER_NAME,
QS.QS_DOC_NAME     WORKBOOK,
QS.QS_DOC_DETAILS  WORKSHEET,
TRUNC(QS.QS_CREATED_DATE) DOC_DATE,
*(LENGTH(TO_CHAR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID)))+1)/9 ITEMS,*
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),1,  6)) ITEM1,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),10, 6)) ITEM2,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),19, 6)) ITEM3,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),28, 6)) ITEM4,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),37, 6)) ITEM5,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),46, 6)) ITEM6,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),55, 6)) ITEM7,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),64, 6)) ITEM8,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),73, 6)) ITEM9,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),82, 6)) ITEM10,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),91, 6)) ITEM11,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),100,6)) ITEM12,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),109,6)) ITEM13,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),118,6)) ITEM14,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),127,6)) ITEM15,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),136,6)) ITEM16,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),145,6)) ITEM17,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),154,6)) ITEM18,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),163,6)) ITEM19,
EUL5_GET_ITEM(SUBSTR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID),172,6)) ITEM20
FROM
EUL5_QPP_STATS QS
WHERE
*(LENGTH(TO_CHAR(EUL5_GET_ITEM_NAME(QS.QS_ID)))+1)/9 < 21*
AND QS.QS_CREATED_DATE > '01-JAN-2010'
AND  QS_NUM_ROWS = 0;
To make this work you need to have executed the SQL called EUL5.SQL which you'll find here: C:\Oracle\BIToolsHome_1\discoverer\util on the machine where Administrator is installed. You'll need to run it as the owner of the EUL. If you have already installed the pre-confgured EUL statistics business areas from Oracle then this script will already have been run.
Best wishes
Michael