Rank Number In a Fomula

Hai Friends ,
I have Appplied Calculate Single Value as Rank number in Sales Qty Kf .So in the Report it is successFully showing the Rank Number Based On the Sales qty . I wanted To make the Top 15
Rank numbers As Rank (1 or A) and next 15 as Rank (2 0r B) and the others as Rank (3 or C)
So i have taken the Rank Formula In Another Formula But here Instead Of taking the Rank Number
It is taking the Sales Qty any light on this
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Regards
Prasad
Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Jun 18, 2009 3:28 PM

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1220
2032
2390
2389
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4
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Sebastian

Hi Ingo and everybody,
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I have an a key orderid and 4 other columns with orderdate&time in (16/12/2011 16:15:24 format) within a table.
the orderid has an average of 1million rows every week hence could not do this in excel for a 15 day period .
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Something like this I think:
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Top N Report by ranking

Hi,
I would like to get Top 3 report for both Graph and tables in WAD. Sample output as :
Transaction :
Product Group | Customer    | Value
ABC               | 123            |   3
ABC               | 456            |   7
ABC               | 789            |   6
ABC               | 333            |   9
DEF               | 123            |   10
DEF               | 789            |   5
PPP               | 333            |   2
Output :
Product Group | Top          | Value
ABC               | 1            |   9                 -      which is customer 333
ABC               | 2            |   7                 -      which is cusotmer 456
ABC               | 3            |   6                 -      which is cusotmer 789
DEF               | 1            |   10
DEF               | 2            |   5
PPP               | 1            |   2
Or it would be even better to have the below format :
Product Group |   Top1 | Top 2 | Top 3
ABC               |    9      |    7     | 6
DEF               |   10      | 5
PPP               |   1       |
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Best Regards,
Jo

Hi,
I am not sure that you can write 'Top1' 'Top2' etc as characteristics.
However, you can use key figure for ranking them .
Copy your 'value' key figure and name it 'Top'. In properties of this key figure, choose rank list.
This will give you the rank number , not sure but you may use it in the graph, you can try that way.
I hope this helps.
Derya
Edited by: Derya Akcakaya on May 2, 2008 10:49 AM

Gaps in Ranking

There appears to be a bug in calculating the ranking of users that leaves gaps in the sequence.
As an example, see http://scn.sap.com/reputation.jspa?username=jamie.wiseman#viewID=leaders
and scan down the list. Why is there nobody listed at rank 128?
I have seen cases where there has been a tie for the number of points and multiple people
had the same rank with an appropriate number of gaps above the ranking. But that isn't
the case here.
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Hi Audrey,
Thanks for looking at it.
I see an entry has been added to the SCN Gamification Known Issues document.
The "Result: The set of five members shown above and below you might not be exact"
wording in the entry seems a bit off, though. The issue affects the ranking of everyone
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I suspect the issue happens when there is a more-than-two-way tie; it appears that when someone in such a tie gains a few points, moving them out of the tie but not overtaking the next-highest ranked person, their rank is only increased by one, moving the gap for the other members of the tie up the chain.
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500           A           10,000
501           B             9,998
498           C             9,800 <-- 2 gaps above as this is 3-way tie
498           D             9,800
498           E             9,800
497           F             9,700
D then earns 2 more points. (choice of D is arbitrary, could also be C or E)
I think what happens is D's rank increases by only one to 499 when
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501           B             9,998
499           D             9,802
498           C             9,800 <-- should now be 1-place gap above 2-way tie
498           E             9,800
497           F             9,700
Cheers,
-bret

Rank SQL need help

I have a simple Table with 2 columns, customer_id (distinct) and Spend
some same fake data
CUST_ID     SPEND        RANK
1234          -125           0
1254          -12             0
1547          0               0
5478          0               0
8874          1               1
6587          1               2
65555        124            3
54784        124            4
45777        1148          5
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was thinking of ising row_number () over, but not sure how to make the RANK of 0 happen.
I am on 11G, thank you!

Hi,
Kodiak_Seattle wrote:
I have a simple Table with 2 columns, customer_id (distinct) and Spend
some same fake data
CUST_ID     SPEND        RANK
1234          -125           0
1254          -12             0
1547          0               0
5478          0               0
8874          1               1
6587          1               2
65555        124            3
54784        124            4
45777        1148          5
45774        2458          6I need to create a Rank column but only create the Rank for positive transaction, negative and 0 will get a RANK of 0, the rest need to have a rank where low spend gets low rank, and high spend gets high rank. Also if a customer has the same spend just rank them in the Order of the row position, ties can't have the same rank number, What is "row position"?
The query below will assign unique numbers to ties, but there's no telling which of the tying rows will get the lower number. You can add more expressions to the analytic ORDER BY clause if you want to number the ties in a particular way.
what is the best way to do this ?
was thinking of ising row_number () over, Exactly! ROW_NUMBER will assign distinct numbers. RANK or DENSE_RANK would give duplicate results in case of a tie.
but not sure how to make the RANK of 0 happen.
I am on 11G, thank you!One way is to use CASE to assign 0 to the non-positive spends, and also to sort negatives at the end when computing the ROW_NUMBERSELECT       cust_id
,       spend
,       CASE
           WHEN spend <= 0
           THEN 0
           ELSE ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( ORDER BY CASE
                                   WHEN spend > 0
                                   THEN spend
                                                               END
       END          AS rnk
FROM       fake_data
ORDER BY spend
;Edited by: Frank Kulash on Jul 20, 2011 3:53 PM
Here's a slightly more elegant way, that avoids a nested CASE expression:
SELECT       cust_id
,       spend
,       CASE
           WHEN spend <= 0
           THEN 0
           ELSE ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( PARTITION BY SIGN (spend)
                                                  ORDER BY      spend
                          ,                 cust_id     DESC     -- or whatever
                                                               END
       END          AS rnk
FROM       fake_data
ORDER BY spend
;I also added an example of numbering ties in a particular order.
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AS
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IS
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BEGIN
OPEN cur_cross FOR 'WITH '
||'att_grp AS '
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||' THEN 1 '
||' ELSE 2 '
||'END attribute_group '
||'FROM '||table_in||', '
||'(SELECT level AS lev '
||'FROM dual '
||'WHERE level >= (SELECT MIN('||column2||') FROM '||table_in||') CONNECT BY level <= (SELECT MAX('||column2||') FROM '||table_in||'))) '
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stat_rec stat_tab_rec;
BEGIN
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||'att_grp AS '
||'(SELECT '||column1||' as x1 , lev AS lev, '||column2||', '
||' CASE'
||' WHEN '||column2||' <= lev '
||' THEN 1 '
||' ELSE 2 '
||'END attribute_group '
||'FROM '||table_in||', '
||'(SELECT level AS lev '
||'FROM dual '
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||'dense_rank() over (order by ROUND(STATS_CROSSTAB(x1,attribute_group,''CHISQ_OBS'' ),4) DESC) AS ranking '
||'FROM att_grp '
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FETCH cur_cross INTO v;
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END LOOP;
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END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE procedure2
IS
v_zeilen NUMBER;
v_lev NUMBER;
v_chi_sq NUMBER;
v_chi_sig NUMBER;
v stat_tab;
BEGIN
procedure1(v);
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from table(v);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line(v_zeilen||v_lev||v_chi_sq||v_chi_sig);
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region          CONSTRAINT T_LOC_SUB_region_FK REFERENCES T_LOC_MAIN(loc),
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office          CONSTRAINT T_LOC_SUB_office_FK REFERENCES T_LOC_MAIN(loc)
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label          VARCHAR2(60),
rank          NUMBER
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Hi,
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Hi,
Can I use decode function inside decode function.
It seem doesn't work. Please help
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'0 / (0%)','N/A', lv.RANK )
Thanks

I'm not quite sure it's the result you intended but your nested decode statement does run ...
SQL> CREATE TABLE lv (rank number, one_yr_pct number)
2 /
Table created.
SQL> insert into lv values (1, 1)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into lv values (2,2)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> insert into lv values (0,0)
2 /
1 row created.
SQL> select decode(lv.RANK||' / '||
2 decode('('||lv.ONE_YR_PCT||'%)', '(%)','N/A','('||lv.ONE_YR_PCT||'%)'),
3 '0 / (0%)','N/A', lv.RANK )
4 from lv
5 /
DECODE(LV.RANK||'/'||DECODE('('||LV.ONE_
1
2
N/A
SQL> If you're having problems maybe you should cut'n'paste the output from your SQL*Plus session so we can see what's happening.
Alternatively, as CD suggests, you may find it easier to express your logic using CASE.
Cheers, APC

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Based on a star schema model in OBIEE, i create the following report in Answers:
Year > Customer Sector > Customer Ranking > Number of Customers > Profitability
I want to display the report so that, for a given year, sectors are displayed in order of overall profitability. After adding sub-totals on the "Customer Sector" level in the Answers report, and then sorting by profitability just sorts the profitability per customer ranking in ascending/descending order, but it doesnt sort on the total sum of profitability per sector.
Would anyone be able to provide some insight on how to go about this?
best regards
- Magnus

that sort is for individual values for that measure, but not for sub-totals.
if you want to sort on sub-totals, follow this:
i'm assuming that for that profitability column sub-total is sum of individual values for that segment..
create other column in criteria tab:
change it's fx to: sum(Profitability by Year, Sector)
then, keep first sort order asc/desc on this column
hide this column
apply 2nd sort order asc/desc on normal profitability column..
hope it resolve your issue....

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