Manually Edit a Query in OBIEE

Hi,
I am the DBA. I don't actually write the reports, but I see some queries running that are taking a very long time. I would like to change some parts of the query but my developers are telling me in OBIEE you can't manually change an auto-generated query. Is this true?
I used to write crystal reports a while back, and while you linked tables and it generated the query for you, you could go into an advanced section and manually change the query/add things.
Is that possible in OBIEE?
I will give an example.
We are setting NLS_SORT and NLS_COMP to support case insensitive searches. In the Where clause, we are doing something like this.
Where CITY like concat(concat('%',':BIND VARIABLE'),'%')
When the bnd variable is nothing, the query sees like '%%' which is causing the QUERY to run forever. I want to do something like this.
REPLACEconcat(concat('%',':BIND VARIABLE'),'%'), '%%','%')
Thanks

You can directly run a query in OBIEE Answers using direct database request. But that is not recommended. To do that first that privelege has to be enabled in the Manage priveleges for Presentation server Administrators. By default it is disabled. Next you need to login into the answers as Administrator and you can write the sql and check the results there.
I understand that you are trying to add that concat function to the where clause column. why dont you ask your OBIEE developers to make that change in the column formula or the column mapping and execute the query.
In that way the tool generates the desired query for you instead of writing the query in the tool.
Hope that helps
thanks
Prash

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