Oracle Reports OCP test

Can any one tell me some kind of a braindump for oracle reports test. I'm trying to prepare for the test.
Thanks

I used Oracle Application Test Suite
Thanks,
Hao Tran

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Hello
Can i achieve OCP with SQL exam , PL / SQL exam and oracle 9i reports exam / xml publisher exam
I'm not intrested in giving an oracle forms exam.
I'm working as an oracle reports writer on oracle applications.
Kindly guide me in the right direction with appropriate oracle links etc.
Regards
Fahad Hameed.

You can achieve "PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate" by passing "Introduction to Oracle9i SQL 1Z0-007" OR "Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL 1Z0-001" OR "Oracle Database SQL Expert 1Z0-047".
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http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=155
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http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=140

How to istall oracle forms service and oracle reports service and testing

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and we can make test?

How to istall oracle forms service and oracle reports service ?http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19375_07/doc/frs/docs.htm
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Error while generating the report on Test env (for divide condition)

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<PACKAGE>XXX </PACKAGE>
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New to oracle report builder

Dear all;
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Hi,
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as
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show errors
create or replace package body test1
is
procedure report(company_name in varchar2 ,cur_out OUT t_ref_cursor)
is
my_r_cursor T_REF_CURSOR;
begin
if(company_name = '1')
THEN
open my_r_cursor for
select 1 as t_id, 'description' ast_description from dual
else
open my_r_cursor for
select 2 as t_id, 'description2' as t_description from dual
end if;
end;
end test1;
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is
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begin
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E

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I have to use the following command from oracle reports.
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Help desiging a 10g Oracle Report with Matrix and Lexical Parameters - Long

Hello all:
I apologize in advance for this long post.... I'm using Oracle Reports 10g (9.0.4.0.33). First -- the question:
I need to create a Matrix where the rows come from one database table
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Does anyone know if this is even possible?
Here's the background on the application, if that is helpful...
I have an application where I maintain database tables containing names/addresses along with information pertaining to them. As part of the processing, I need to produce reports that contain statistics based on values in the table. For example, each row has a field RTYPE that identifies the Record Type (1-Suppress, 2-Buyer, 3-Inquirer). Each row also has a last purchase date field. The statistics produced for this field would look like this:
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Buyer      100 150 250 30 25 15 8 9 22 83
Inquirer     1000 800 493 ...
Suppress ... ...
Totals ... ...
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year of purchase. So, the column headings are variable.
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END FmtDate_8,
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FROM &TABLENAME T
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WHEN rtype = '3' THEN 'Inquirers'
WHEN rtype = '1' THEN 'Suppress'
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THEN TO_CHAR(T.HOTLINE,'YYYYMM')
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THEN TO_CHAR(T.HOTLINE,'YYYYMM')
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END
There might be a better way to write this, but that isn't the issue at the moment.
I have many different tables, each with different fields. I need to produce counts on each of those fields. Some of those fields have a limited number of values where I need to count the occurrences and attach a description (like the RTYPE counts above). Others, like Last Purchase Amount, require counts within ranges (between 0 and 9.99, 10 and 19.99, etc.). Still others are "multiple choice"-style fields (such as products purchased), where we have multiple single-char flags that are not null when the corresponding products are purchased. In this case, we need to produce statistics that look like this:
          2001     2002     2003     11/03     12/03 01/04     02/04 03/04     04/04     05/04 ...
Product 1 .........
Product 2 .........
The worst of the bunch is a field where I need to count the occurrence of each value within it (hundreds of values) without entering descriptions, so I don't know how many rows will appear ahead of time. This is used for "source codes" that identify where the name/address came from. They look similar to the RTYPE above, but the leftmost column contains each value from the field rather than a description. There are so many possible values and they change so often that it isn't feasible to enter a description for each one.
Right now, I manually create an Oracle Report for each table when I design/load it. This is becoming difficult to manage, since I have over 150 of them now. Each of these reports can have any number of matrices to display (the largest right now has about 25).
The new table structure to generate these reports consists of two tables: A COUNTHDR table and a COUNTROW table. The COUNTHDR table represents a single Matrix within the report. It contains info such as a heading for the Matrix and whether column totals should be calculated or not. The COUNTROW table contains a description for each row and an SQL Fragment that contains an appropriate WHERE clause to match the description. In the event of a "source code" style count, COUNTHDR has the name of the field to count. COUNTROWs won't exist, so I'll be handling those counts differently. But, ignoring that issue for now, the report structure looks like this:
+ Q1 +
|
+ COUNTHDR +
|
+ COUNTROW +
| linked query
+ Q2 +
|
+ COUNTDTL +
Q2 is the query with lexical parameters for the table and "where clause" that identifies the actual statistic I need counted. I need fields from COUNTROW and COUNTDTL to form a Matrix.
Can this be done? How?
Of course, if anyone out there has a better idea on how to achieve my goal of not writing a report per table, please let me know!! :-)
TIA
Eric Raskin
PS. This structure does not exactly duplicate my original query, since multiple Matrix rows are created by the single SQL query given in the example. Instead, I'll end up executing an SQL query for each row, which is less than desirable. The design will need some tweaking...
PPS. I have tried handling this problem by pre-counting the target table and storing the results in a COUNTCOL table, containing the details of the matrix. This actually does work, but the performance is terrible. I have one "source code"-style count that generated over 20,000 detail cells, including all the "0" cells needed to fill out the matrix. If you don't generate the "0" cells, you get holes in the matrix presentation and/or error messages (which I can explain if you wish). I never did get Oracle Reports to print this one -- I gave up after an hour of runtime on a P4 3GHz machine connected via Gigabit Ethernet to the server. Hence the attempt to push the SQL Queries back into the Oracle Report itself.
Eric H. Raskin Voice: 914-765-0500
Professional Advertising Systems Inc. Fax: 914-765-0503
200 Business Park Dr Suite 107 [email protected]
Armonk, NY 10504

Hi there
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Html header of the page :
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Run XML Publisher Report via URL (like Oracle Reports)

Hi All,
Is it possible to run xml-publisher report via URL?
In Oracle Reports works this fine:
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Thanks
Thomas

Thomas,
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You say you want to let your users run reports using XMLP just by clicking on an URL same way you do with reports and without having to login. If I got the question right and assuming that:
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Cheers,
Joao
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I'll keep the link alive for a couple of days.

Key Mapping with Oracle Reports

I am currently trying to run report requests using the Oracle Report Server however the problem that I have is that we need to send database username/password information over the network. From a security perspective this is not acceptable.
One way we were going to get around this is to "wrap" the Oracle Report servlet with another servlet, so the client browser sends the wrapper servlet information such as report location and report name, and the
wrapper servlet adds in additional information such as the username and
password, eliminating the need for the client application to know this information.
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acceptable. As I have seen mention that Oracle Reports can be run over the Internet,
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Part Number A92102-01
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                CASE WHEN PS.FIRST_CONTACT IN ('NET','PAP','COM','COP') THEN PS.First_Contact
                 ELSE CASE WHEN ps.latest_contact IN ('NET','PAP','COM','COP') THEN PS.Latest_Contact
                            ELSE ' '
                            END
                END AS FIRST_CONTACT,
                DECODE(:p_address,'Y',REPLACE(adr.street1||' '||adr.street2||' '||adr.street3||' '||adr.city||','||adr.state||' '||adr.nation||' '||adr.zip,' ',' '),' ') as address, adr.nation, adr.state,
                goremal_email_address email, a.residency, a.application_date, p.primary_ethnicity, c.cohort
FROM MST_ADMISSIONS_APPLICATION A,
           MST_PERSON p,mst_pre_student PS, Admissions_Cohort c, usf_v_phone_pr_ma ph,
           MST_admissions_decision_slot AD, usf_v_email, usf_v_address_dr_lr_ma_pr adr
WHERE a.PERSON_UID = p.person_uid
        AND a.curriculum_priority = 1
        AND a.person_uid = ps.person_uid
       AND a.person_uid = ad.person_Uid(+)
       AND a.person_uid = goremal_pidm(+)
       AND a.person_uid = adr.pidm(+)
       AND a.person_uid = ph.pidm(+)
       AND ph.rnum(+) = 1
       AND a.person_uid = c.person_uid(+)
       AND a.academic_period = c.academic_period(+)
&Where_Clause
       /*    TAKE OUT FOLLOWING LINE AFTER DATA IS CLEANED UP */
        AND NOT(p.id_number = '00000000'   OR SUBSTR(p.id_number,1,1) = 'B' OR UPPER(p.full_name_lfmi) LIKE '%TESTING%')
       AND a.application_status_date >= NVL(:p_as_of_date,sysdate-8000)
       AND a.academic_period = ad.academic_period(+)
        AND a.application_number = ad.application_number(+)
        AND a.degree <> 'ND'    /*   AND a.college <> 'LW'                         -- Does not need non-degree and law students    */
       &Cohort_Clause
ORDER BY Program &ORDER_CLAUSE

Hi Denis,
I tried your suggestion. The good thing is that adding the comma allowed me to be able to add a.campus to the select statement, unfortunately, another error message happened.
ORA-00936: missing expression SELECT p . person_uid PIDM_KEY ,
p . id_number , p . full_name_lfmi name , p . BIRTH_DATE , p . GENDER Sex ,
Decode ( a . residency , 'D' , p . Primary_Ethnicity , 'F' ) Ethn , a . academic_period TERM ,
CASE WHEN : P_group_by = 'PROGRAM THEN a I started over and tried only putting in the comma and get the same message even though I didn't add campus. After that, removed the comma which led to the ORA-00933 error message. So once again, I had to close the file without saving, in order for the report to run at all.

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