Missing functions in DW CC - insert Spry and •Select Modify Media Queries.

In DW CC under the "insert" menu there should be "spry" not there
in Modify, there should be "media Queries" not there
Are these in a new place? can't fid this stuff

Pure CSS Drop-Menu
http://jsfiddle.net/NancyO/zN7fU/
CSS3 Dropdown Menus
http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-dropdown-menu
PVII's Pop-Menu Magic3 (commercial DW extension)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm3/index.htm
jQuery Superfish
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
jQuery MegaMenu 2
http://www.geektantra.com/2010/05/jquery-megamenu-2/
jQuery MeanMenu (responsive on mobile)
http://www.meanthemes.com/plugins/meanmenu/
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and then uses this parameter to locate the record and then copy this record
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I'll use a sample to clarify my question a bit further
-- Create New Amendment
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return integer is
new_mipr_id integer;
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practical,
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insert into mipr
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How do I use a combination of more than one select and hard coded values to insert a new record into the table.
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end;
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KT

function create_amendment(p_mipr_number in mipr.mipr_number%TYPE)
return integer is
new_mipr_id integer;
tmp_number number;
tmp_mipr_id integer;
begin
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I try to do one insert with case and select and I can't, I don't know why:
This is what I want
I have one column in the TAUX_MEDIA_PPM named GRAU. IF GRAU = 'TIPO', the I have to do one type of INSERT, if is = 'ATRIBUTO' I have to do another type of INSERT and ELSE, another type of INSERT.
This is what I tested for the last time:
SELECT T1.GRAU,
CASE
WHEN T1.GRAU = 'TIPO' THEN
INSERT INTO TF_MEDIA_PPM__TESTE (
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0, 0, 0, NULL, 0, 0, 0
WHEN T1.GRAU = 'ATRIBUTO' THEN
INSERT INTO TF_MEDIA_PPM__TESTE (
MEDIA_PPM_SEQ, DATA_SK, ESCOPO_SK, MOTIVO_SK, PERIODO_TIPO, MEDIA_PPM_TIPO, TRES_SIGMA_TIPO, SEIS_SIGMA_TIPO,
PERIODO_ATRIBUTO, MEDIA_PPM_ATRIBUTO, TRES_SIGMA_ATRIBUTO, SEIS_SIGMA_ATRIBUTO, PERIODO_ATRIBCOMPL, MEDIA_PPM_ATRIBCOMPL,
TRES_SIGMA_ATRIBCOMPL, SEIS_SIGMA_ATRIBCOMPL
) VALUES (
SEQ_TF_MEDIA_PPM.nextval, T2.DATA_SK, T1.ESCOPO_SK, T1.MOTIVO_SK, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
T2.MEDIA, T2.ALERTA, T2.ATENCAO, NULL, 0, 0, 0
WHEN T1.GRAU = 'ATRIB_COMPL' THEN
INSERT INTO TF_MEDIA_PPM__TESTE (
MEDIA_PPM_SEQ, DATA_SK, ESCOPO_SK, MOTIVO_SK, PERIODO_TIPO, MEDIA_PPM_TIPO, TRES_SIGMA_TIPO, SEIS_SIGMA_TIPO,
PERIODO_ATRIBUTO, MEDIA_PPM_ATRIBUTO, TRES_SIGMA_ATRIBUTO, SEIS_SIGMA_ATRIBUTO, PERIODO_ATRIBCOMPL, MEDIA_PPM_ATRIBCOMPL,
TRES_SIGMA_ATRIBCOMPL, SEIS_SIGMA_ATRIBCOMPL
) VALUES (
SEQ_TF_MEDIA_PPM.nextval, T2.DATA_SK, T1.ESCOPO_SK, T1.MOTIVO_SK, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
0, 0, 0, NULL, T2.MEDIA, T2.ALERTA, T2.ATENCAO
END
FROM TAUX_MEDIA_PPM
JOIN TX_MEDIA T2 ON T2.CHAVE = T1.CHAVE;
I don't know what I have to do now...
Regards,
Tiberio
Edited by: MrTiberio on 27/03/2012 06:55
Fixing code formatting

I used this:
INSERT INTO tf_media_ppm__teste
(media_ppm_seq,data_sk,escopo_sk,motivo_sk,periodo_tipo,media_ppm_tipo,tres_sigma_tipo,seis_sigma_tipo,periodo_atributo,media_ppm_atributo
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,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'TIPO' THEN t2.alerta ELSE 0 END
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'TIPO' THEN t2.atencao ELSE 0 END
,NULL
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'ATRIBUTO' THEN t2.media ELSE 0 END
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'ATRIBUTO' THEN t2.alerta ELSE 0 END
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'ATRIBUTO' THEN t2.atencao ELSE 0 END
,NULL
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'ATRIB_COMPL' THEN t2.media ELSE 0 END
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'ATRIB_COMPL' THEN t2.alerta ELSE 0 END
,CASE t1.grau WHEN 'ATRIB_COMPL' THEN t2.atencao ELSE 0 END
FROM TAUX_MEDIA_PPM T1
JOIN TX_MEDIA T2 ON T2.CHAVE = T1.CHAVE;
and worked fine.
Thanks for both of you !

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I'm working with OWB for some time now and there are a lot of rough edges to discover. Functionality and stability leave a lot to be desired. Here's a small and incomplete list of things that annoy me:
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Poor or missing functionality:
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- The order of the attributes cannot be changed. This really pisses me off expecially if operators like the aggregator scramble the order of attributes.
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vendors.
What do you think about OWB? Will it be a competitor for the leading etl tools or just a cheap database add on and become widely used like SAB BW not for reasons of technology or functionality but because it's cheap?
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Thanks to you two for entertaining my thoughts so far. Let me respond to you latest comments.
Okay, lets not argue which one is better.. when a tool is there .. then there are some reasons to be there...But the points raised by Jorg and me are really very annoying. Overall I agree with both yours and Jorg's points (and I did not think it was an argument...merely sharing our observations with each other (;^)
The OWB tool is not as mature as Informatica. However, Informatica has no foothold in the database engine itself and as I mentioned earlier, is still "on the outside looking in..." The efficiency and power of set-based activity versus row-based activity is substantial.
Looking at it from another way lets take a look at Microstrategy as a way of observing a technical strategy for product development. Microstrategy focused on the internals (the engine) and developed it into the "heavy-lifting" tool in the industry. It did this primarily by leveraging the power of the backend...the database and the hosting server. For sheer brute force, it was champion of the day. It was less concerned with the pretty presentation and more concerned with getting the data out of the back-end so the user didn't have to sit there for a day and wait. Now they have begun to focus on the presentation part.
Likewise this seems to be the strategy that Oracle has used for OWB. It is designed around the database engine and leverages the power of the database to do its work. Informatica (probably because it needs to be all things to all people) has tended to view the technical offerings of the database engine as a secondary consideration in its architectural approach and has probably been forced to do so more now that Oracle has put themselves in direct competition with Informatica. To do otherwise would make their product too complex to maintain and more vendor-specific.
I am into the third data warehousing/data migration project and my previous two have been on Informatica (3 years on it).I respect your experience and your opinions...you are not a first timer. The tasks we have both had to solve and how we solved them with these tools are not necessarily the same. Could be similar in instances; could be quite different.
So the general tendency is to evaluate the tool and try to see how things that were needed to be done in my previous projects can be done with this tool. I am afraid to say .. I am still not sure how these can be implemented in OWB. The points raised by us are probably the fall out of this deficiency.One observation that I would make is that in my experience, calls to the procedural language in the database engine have tended to perform very poorly with Informatica. Informatica's scripting language is week. Therefore, if you do not have direct usability of a good, strong procedural language to tackle some complicated tasks, then you will be in a pickle when the solution is not well suited to a relational-based approach. Informatica wants you to do most things outside of the database (in the map primarily). It is how you implement the transformation logic. OWB is built entirely around the relational, procedural, and ETL components in the Oracle database engine. That is what the tool is all about.
If cost is the major factor for deciding a tool then OWB stands far ahead...Depends entirely on the client and the situation. I have implemented solutions for large companies and small companies. I don't use a table saw to cut cake and I don't use a pin knife to fall trees. Right tool for the right job.
...thats what most managers do .. without even looking how in turn by selecting such a tool they make the life tough for the developers.Been there many times. Few non-technical managers understand the process of tool evaluation and selection and the value a good process adds to the project. Nor do they understand the implications of making a bad choice (cost, productivity, maintainability).
The functionality of OWB stands way below Informatica.If you are primarily a GUI-based implementer that is true. However, I have often found that when I have been brought in to fix performance problems with Informatica implementations that the primary problem is usually with the way that the developer implemented it. Too often I have found that the developer understands how to implement logic in the GUI component (the Designer/Maps and Sessions) with a complete lack of understanding of how all this activity will impact load performance (they don't understand how the database engine works.) For example, a strong feature in Informatica is the ability to override the default SQL statement generated by Informatica. This was a smart design decision on Informatica's part. I have frequently had to go into the "code" and fix bad joins, split up complex operations, and rip out convoluted logic to get the maps to perform within a reasonable load window. Too often these developers are only viewing the problem through the "window" of the tool. They are not stepping back and look at the problem in the context of the overall architecture. In part Informatica forces them to do this. Another possible factor is they probably don't know better.
"One tool...one solution"
Microstrategy until recently had been suffering from that same condition of not allowing the developer to create the actual query). OWB engineers need to rethink their strategy on overriding the SQL.
The functionality of OWB stands way below Informatica.In some ways yes. If you do a head-to-head comparison of the GUI then yes. In other ways OWB is better (Informatica does not measure up when you compare it with all of the architectural features that the Oracle database engine offers). They need to fix the bugs and annoyances though.
.. but even the GUI of Informatica is better than OWB and gives the developer some satisfaction of working in it.Believe me I feel your pain. On the other hand, I have suffered from Informatica bugs. Ever do a port from one database eingine to another just to have it convert everything into multi-byte? Ever have it re-define your maps to parallel processing threads when you didn't ask it to?
Looking at the technical side of things I can give you one fine example ... there is no function in Oracle doing to_integer (to_number is there) but Informatica does that ... Hmm-m-m...sorry, I don't get the point.
The style of ETL approach of Informatica is far more appealing.I find it unnecessarily over-engineered.
OWB has two advantages : It is basically free of cost and it has a big brother in Oracle.
It is basically free of cost...When you are another "Microsoft", you can throw your weight around. The message for Informatica is "don't bite the hand that feeds you." Bad decisions at the top.
Regards,
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friends..
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Thanks and Regards

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