Regarding DWH

Hi all
1.Hierarchy of DWH?
2. What is surrogate key?
3. Advantages of de normalized data?
4. What is operational data source (ODS)?
5. What is meta data ?database catalog?
6. What is factless fact schema?
7. What is confirmed dimension?
8. Which kind of index is preferred in DWH?
pl clarify my doubts.
rampa

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Hi friends,
While trying to create DWH tables from Tools>>ETL Mgmt>>Configure.
At the end of creating DWH tables resulted in failure. When i checked with the log file "createwtables.log" it showed like below
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STD OUTPUT
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CREATING SIEBEL DATABASE OBJECTS
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ERROR OUTPUT
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Siebel Enterprise Applications ODBC DDL Import Utility, Version 7.7 [18030] ENU
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C:\orahome\10gR3_1\bifoundation\dac\UTILITIES\BIN\DDLIMP /I N /s N /u DAC /p ***** /c OBIDB /G SSE_ROLE /f C:\orahome\10gR3_1\bifoundation\dac/conf/sqlgen/ctl-file/oracle_bi_dw.ctl /b OBIEE_TOOLS /K OBIEE_TOOLS /X OBIEE_INDEX /W N
Connecting to the database...
Unable to connect to the database...Im sure that database connectivity to the user in Up. These are the below details that i gave
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ODBC Datasource: OBIDB
Tablespace: OBIEE_TOOLS
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REgards,
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Hi Andy,
Like Svee, adviced in the below link
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10520360
I tried to search for my DSN entry in the odbc driver which is in system32 and systemWOW64. Hence i can find the entry in system32, but not in systemWOW64. So i tried to create my same DSN entry in the driver in systemWOW64 and after that i started to created DWH tables and now it is created successfully.
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Dwh's current take on SCP (Snap-Crackle-P

I think that many people could solve their SCP problems mainly by looking at the problem differently. The main reason for this post is to try to help that happen. In a sense, of course, this will tend to validate my position or not, depending whether significantly more people start reporting getting rid of SCP or not. It is not my intent to defend my position - I think there's been plenty of that in other threads - and I intend to ignore any replies which are simply argumentati've, because experience has shown that responding makes the thread length explode, which would just bury my intended message underneath that kind of traffic. In fact, I've decided I will give all such argumentati've posts in this thread a "" rating as further encouragement to argue with me in some other thread.
OK, you've got SCP. How do I suggest you approach it's
First, do not assume your SCP has the same cause as everybody else's. I'm going to talk about the bus latency cause, because that's the one I think is behind the bulk of the complaints, but yours might be something else: you might be one of the unlucky people whose card is defecti've, for example (that's going to happen to some people, and it could be you).
Second, think of your soundcard symptoms as possibly revealing a problem in your system, much as canaries were used in coal mines because they are more sensiti've to toxic gases and would die before it was too late for the miners to get out. This suggests that the soundcard may be telling you to look elsewhere, and I suggest that for this particular problem, that's actually a good way to go. So, for this particular problem, ask yourself what other devices seem to be acti've when you hear SCP. For example, if you hear SCP when you see the disk activity LED flash, that's a big clue. Pay attention to stuff like that.
I'll get into why's later on, but for now, the kind of device most likely to be behind SCP is a relati'vely smart device geared for high performance, particularly video cards and busmastering disk controllers (especially RAID controllers), although network cards and TV cards are examples which don't seem to me to fit that mold, but sometimes seem to be behind SCP.
I think the first thing to try is to do simple things which may evoke SCP or make it worse. I suggest rapidly scrolling a large window up and down while playing audio is a good basic test for the video card. Similarly, copying a large file (or better, running a disk benchmark) while playing audio is a good basic test for disk controllers.
The next thing to try is to temporarily change settings which affect driver behavior. Examples are lowering the video acceleration and disk read ahead settings. These are things easily changed and changed back. If they stop SCP, this casts strong suspicion toward the device associated with them.
Progressing to steps which require some more effort, I am convinced these problems are fundamentally due to some design weaknesses in the PCI and PCIe buses themselves. However, there's really nothing that you can do about that. The only available true fix is having drivers for vulnerable devices take steps which avoid the situation which sets off the problem. So, this means it's a good idea to make sure all your drivers are current, including the drivers for any devices which are integrated into your motherboard. Then, if that doesn't help, see if you can find some non-current drivers to try for those devices which were already current, and try those. Sometimes you can revert to generic drivers which are built into the operating system. For example, if you remove your video card drivers, this will happen. The idea is to try a completely different driver to see if it affects the symptoms. I don't suggest running anything other than the current drivers supplied by the device manufacturer as a real solution, but it can be a very effecti've diagnostic tactic, and it can be useful information when trying to get the official driver fixed (i.e. if you can tell your video card maker that your soundcard noises stopped when you removed their video card driver...). Falling back to generic drivers may mean advanced hardware features won't be used, so if you're only experiencing SCP when there is high-intensity game action on your two-card SLI graphics rig, it may not be diagnostic; but if you get SCP when playing WMV-HD video files, it could well be enlightening.
If you're not focused on a specific non-soundcard device at this point, my next suggestion is to rule out as much as possible. This probably means opening the computer's case and removing any hardware that is not essential for your testing. You won't be able to remove integrated devices, so for those this means disabling them in the BIOS. (If you have more than one disk controller, you might be able to temporarily rearrange your system to only use one of them at a time for your tests.) Of course, you can take a slower approach like trying disabling devices in Device Manager first, but ultimately this step is to help rule out things you're not suspecting, and there's nothing like removal to make sure something isn't influencing your symptoms. If this approach proves fruitful, putting things back together piece by piece until the problems recur should cast suspicion on the last device you put back or enabled. Unfortunately, simplifying your system can make SCP go away simply by slightly improving bus latency performance without actually fixing it. So, this isolation process can only suggest which device is really behind your system's bus latency problems, and which driver you really need fixed (or device with bad drivers you might consider replacing).
If you still get SCP with your system stripped down with only essential devices left, you will at least have a smaller number of prime suspects, unless you are in a position to try substituting other devices. That's often not really practical, but if you own a computer store, or have very generous and helpful friends, it may be an option.
Ultimately, if you can figure out which device to focus on, and can find drivers for it that address the bus retry problem, you should be able to make just that one substitution, and really solve bus-latency-caused SCP, not just keep it at bay.
In some cases it may be useful to record the SCP via What-U-Hear and/or Wave, at the right sample rates, and look at it in a suitable wav editor. This can give clues as to whether the SCP is due to bus latency or something else. Within reason, I'm quite willing to try to help out in individual cases in this thread if you're trying to follow my advice. Feel free to ask questions, etc.
Now, to explain where I'm coming from a little.
There's a bottom line here. If you're talking about bus latency, which is how long a device has to wait to get the bus after making a request for it, in terms of 00's of microseconds (more than 3,000 bus-cycle times), or more, for something that operates at the speed of the PCI bus, that's all you need to know that something is seriously out of whack. It's also all you need to know to rule out the device that is waiting as being the cause of the delay. The point here is that we're not talking about sub-optimal bus latency, nor even poor bus latency, but "insanely awful" bus latency.
Any analogy is going to be a stretch here, but imagine a traffic signal in a city that does not permit a right turn on a red light. We can consider the latency a car experiences to be the time from when it arri'ves at the intersection controlled by the light to when that car gets a green light. Now, considering the normal speed of cars, etc., suppose I start talking to you about timing the light for a two-hour cycle, i.e. about one hour green, a few seconds of yellow, and about one hour red. That would be more than completely nuts, right? Well, the kinds of bus latency CL has measured is that kind of nuts. It really is.
(While I understand the arguments that if CL makes a sound card at all they should go to whatever lengths to make sure it works irregardless, there must be some point where those arguments just get unfair if the infrastructure upon which CL relies, but does not control, is sufficiently insane. That's why I personally can't bring myself to blame CL, and instead look to the design of the infrastructure first, and whatever is able to avoid causing the "insanely awful" bus latency second.)
While bus latency as high as has been reported is sufficient to explain a reasonably-designed soundcard producing the kinds of symptoms that are being observed, and that the device experiencing that kind of bus latency isn't that cause of it, it's not enough information to determine the cause. I've said there are really only two plausible things that can explain it. Either the controls to limit the length of an individual bus transaction (after the bus has been requested) fail to do so under some conditions, or after a master requests the bus, others are being given multiple turns before the bus is finally granted (i.e. you ask for the bus, but your "turn" keeps getting skipped). (The only other possibilities are either essentially even more insane bus behavior, unless your position is that CL's engineers and others are so dumb they can't use equipment like bus analyzers to measure the latency their device is exposed to, or that they are just plain lying.)
Initially my instincts had me leaning toward the first of the two cases: something wrong with the transaction latency controls. Currently, it looks like it's really the second case: one device is getting more than one transaction when others are waiting. This is after I've been able to look at the PCI specs. (Because my access is through a pcisig.org member company, I don't feel comfortable quoting from the specs., nor saying more than a minimum about their contents that is relevant.)
"Bus retry" is when a transfer is stopped by the addressed device before any data transfer has occurred. It carries a special implication that the same transaction is to be retried. It seems to be designed as a way for a slow device to delay things (a little) until it can get ready.
The failure mode I have seen described is that the host bridge (essentially the processor connection to the bus), addresses a device and then does bus retry transactions for an insanely long time. The device has some kind of small queue of things to do, which has become full, and the device signals bus retry until the full condition ends. The host bridge seems to dedicate itself to this one task, so this may block other processor I/O operations. Since the bus retry transactions do finish, albeit early, it would seem that other bus masters, like the CL soundcards at issue, should be able get the bus while this is going on, but that doesn't seem to happen. In looking over the PCI 3.0 spec, I only find 2 things which seem relevant.
There is a 0 microsecond limit on bus retry looping of a specific kind, but there is no hardware enforcement; the spec explicitly permits proper avoidance to be implemented in device drivers. If this is overlooked, failure lurks for spec-conformant hardware, and I think it's easy to overlook this.
Secondly, there are ways some masters can get an exclusi've lock of the bus, and some situations where the lock semantics can result in data overruns for video/audio/communications devices, to the extent that the 3.0 spec discourages the use of the LOCK# signal and hopes to remove completely it in the future.
I also tend to think that having 2 basic causes for such grotesque, long-standing problems is pretty unlikely, though not impossible. So far I don't see a need to speculate to the contrary, which is to say I am inclined to apply Occam's razor to this, so long as the symptoms and hard evidence seem to be covered by one basic explanation.
My current take on all this is that it's likely been standard practice for host bridges to control bus deadlocks and operation sequencing problems by some combination of bus locking and transaction ordering, with the net effect that the bus gets dedicated to bus retry loops when they occur. It's likely that these practices have been carried to the PCIe bus (because they control potentially serious problems). In PCIe-bus machines, the PCI bus hangs off the PCIe bus by means of a PCIe/PCI bridge. That means that if there is a locked bus-retry pathology on the PCIe bus, I'd expect PCI devices to see the PCI bus appear to go idle for the duration even though there are requests for the PCI bus. That seems to me to be consistent with the CL NF4 statement that it was "...the first motherboard on which these extremely long PCI service holdoffs have been observed by Creative, where another PCI device in the system was not causing the holdoff."
This suggests that chipsets might be able to do something about this. If the host bridge released the lock on the bus, at least when ending a "bus retry" transaction, it seems this would help busmastering soundcards, like the X-Fi, by letting them break in during a bus-retry loop. That should eliminate the huge bus latency measurements. However, the bridge would have to be doing something pretty complex to let other driver tasks past an unlocked bus-retry loop, so I think this could still be a big bottleneck. For this not to be a problem area, I think extended bus-retry loops have to be prevented.
Right now, extended bus-retry loops can be prevented by driver-avoidance, which IMO is a workaround, not a true solution. If you can hunt down and deal with the culprit drivers, however, at least it does fix things; it's just that that can be darn hard to accomplish. From a bus protocol standpoint, this kind of thing needs an enforced limit. A device which simply has slow circuitry doesn't need very many retry cycles, and that's what this is useful for. A device which (ab)uses it because its work queue is full leads to these problems, because the right thing to happen is do other things with the bus until the device work queue has room. In other words, this isn't a "wait for me" situation, it's a "come back later" one. Exceeding some generous "wait for me" limit should have been a reject reflected back to the driver. There is more than one reasonable way to do something like that, so I'm not going suggest how the PCI bus might have been different to help with that; the small hard limit is sufficient: the driver can look at a status bit, and request an interrupt from the device when the bit clears, as the PCI bus stands now.
-Dave
[email protected]

. Perhaps NVidia simply makes their 6x PCIe slots ultra high priority so their video cards can squeeze out every last frame per second in SLI mode as possible, without regard to being "nice" to other add-in cards by allowing them proper bus time?
While that's certainly not something I can rule out, I think it's much more likely the bus-retry pathology has simply spread to PCIe, having not been dealt with in PCI. But, you say, PCIe is based on serial point-to-point technology and can be doing more than one thing at at time. It's also based on the PCI programming model and I think it likely there are bottleneck points around the setting up of transfers. What that means is that the arbiter does one grant at a time, but can continue onto others unless they would conflict or it runs out of some needed resource, so when that process is locked by the PCIe Host Bridge while it tries to start up a transfer to a device that keeps responding to each attempt with bus retry, it's entirely possible the same thing happens as for the PCI bus, even though normally the PCIe bus can indeed do some numbers of multiple transfers in parallel.
2. Perhaps PCIe won't have this problem, once motherboards are 00% PCIe without any old PCI slots? I think this may happen, because PCIe is based on serial point-to-point technology as opposed to the older PCI based on parallel shared-bus technology.
If there was a Soundblaster X-Fi card with PCIe for connectivity (even though it doesn't need the bandwidth), then perhaps it wouldn't have any of these ongoing problems any more at all.
Hopefully, some day very soon, Creative Labs will make a sound card for PCIe. There sure is a high demand for it now, which I'm sure will only increase -- especially when PCI gets phased out completely just like ISA was a few years ago!
My current take is that this problem really appears to have spread to PCIe. Furthermore, CL has stated that PCIe has tested to be even worse than PCI for audio. It's better for moving more data faster, but seems to be even worse at moving small amounts of data promptly. (This is what can happen if only throughput is your God.) I'm very inclined to believe the reason for this is really that the bus-retry pathology gets worse as the bus gets faster, and I take it as some of the evidence for the problem having spread to PCIe.
-Dave
[email protected]

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Dear Gurus
1) Transformation replaces the transfer rule and update rule.
2) DTP replaces the info package.
Hencse, there is a some advantages are there in Transformation and DTP.
I couldn't understand in help.sap.com.
Could you please tell me in simple language what all are the new features are there in Transformation and DTP which is not possible in Transfer rule, Update rule and infopackage.
Thanks and Regards
Raja

Hi Raja,
These are the advantages of DTP and Transformation over their predecessors.
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2)Improved performance:Intrinsic parallelism
3)Separation of delta mechanism for different data targets: delta capability is controlled by the DTP
4)Enhanced filtering in data flow
5)Repair modes based on temporary buffers (buffers keep complete set of data)
Transformation: SAP NetWeaver2004s significantly improves transformation capabilities. The improved graphical UI contributes to decrease TCO.
1)Transformation Improved performance, flexibility and usability
2)Graphical UI
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4)New rule type: end routine
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6)Unit Conversion Capabilities for unit conversion during data load (and reporting)
Assign points if it is helpful.
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I have a table on the source system
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, f2 varchar2( 30 char )
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where id = 1;
update table tab
set f2 = 'Mary'
where id = 1;
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update table tab
set f2 = 'Mary'
where id = 1;
delete tab
where id = 1;
can I make GoldenGate to apply the following to the target table
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delete tab where id = 1; -- for the second one (source mode replication)
or just to do nothing in normal mode (capturing changes across the 1rst and the 2nd transaction and merging insert with delete into NOOP)?
Our team considers using GoldenGate to apply incremental data changes to DWH and definitely there is no need for applying intermediate values.
As far as I understand using BATCHSQL wont help in that case, cause it will only organize 2 updates withing 1rst transaction into one batch operation. Am I right?
Regards, Anton.

Hi,
How do I interpret it ...That's a mighty big question. The STATSPACK report is very complex. I have my notes here, on how I do it:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_reading_statspack_report.htm
And can anyone please suggest measures The way your report is posted, it's very difficult to read!
I wrote a free tool that will accept your STATYSPACK report and make rudimentary suggestions, you might want to give it a try:
http://www.statspackanalyzer.com
Hope this helps. . .
Donald K. Burleson
Oracle Press author
Author of "Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference":

Maintaining the structure of a SQL Server staging area and dwh aligned with the Oracle data source

Hi,
I'm working in a context where the data source system, in Oracle, is a continuos work in progress. Each 1-2-3 weeks the data source system in the prod environment is updated with new tables or updated table (with new columns or altered columns). So, it is
important to apply in a rapid manner the related changes in the data structure of the SQL Server staging area and dwh.
The issues to solve are:
a. maintaining SQL Server data structure of the staging area aligned with the data structure of the Oracle data source;
b. maintaing SQL Server data structure of the staging area aligned with the data structure of the SQL Server staging area.
In order to solve these issues it could be useful to think to an authomatic manner to alert when a data structure change occurs and a simple manner to apply the changes on SQL Server data structure.
Any suggests, please? Many thanks

We use Oracle CDC service in SQLServer. It has a flag to indicate the schema changes happening at the Oracle end. We track the schema changes using it and then apply changes to sqlserver side. And regarding automation you can use Biml as suggested or .NET
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I have a questions,
What is the advantage for use undo_management MANUAL oracle 9i in DWH vs undo_management AUTO?
I need to obtain the UNDO_BLOCK_PER_SEC, but when I try to obtain the information in the view v$undostat, appear "no rows selected", exist any form to obtain this information?
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To add to what SB said, do not tune what does not need tuning. That is, do not make changes till you have developed a case to support the change.
In order to learn how to work with rollback segments look in your DBA Administration manual. Since Oracle now puts the emphasis on automatic undo management I would look for an earlier version of the documentation set and reference it since there is probably more information in the manual where manual RBS management was the only method.
If you are a warehouse I would expect the number of users performing DML to be low and the update jobs to be large so I would expect a low number of large RBS segments to be allocated.
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Hi,
What is the major difference between sy-index and sy-tabix ,
can you give me one good example with code..
Regards,
Reddy.

Hi,
SY-TABIX - Current line of an internal table. SY-TABIX is set by the statements below, but only for index tables. The field is either not set or is set to 0 for hashed tables.
APPEND sets SY-TABIX to the index of the last line of the table, that is, it contains the overall number of entries in the table.
COLLECT sets SY-TABIX to the index of the existing or inserted line in the table. If the table has the type HASHED TABLE, SY-TABIX is set to 0.
LOOP AT sets SY-TABIX to the index of the current line at the beginning of each loop lass. At the end of the loop, SY-TABIX is reset to the value that it had before entering the loop. It is set to 0 if the table has the type HASHED TABLE.
READ TABLE sets SY-TABIX to the index of the table line read. If you use a binary search, and the system does not find a line, SY-TABIX contains the total number of lines, or one more than the total number of lines. SY-INDEX is undefined if a linear search fails to return an entry.
SEARCH FOR sets SY-TABIX to the index of the table line in which the search string is found.
SY_INDEX - In a DO or WHILE loop, SY-INDEX contains the number of loop passes including the current pass.
sy-tabix is the tab index - the index of the record in the internal table you are accessing,
sy-index is the loop counter.
If you use a condition in LOOP the sy-index will go from 1 to n, but sy-tabix will refer to the line in the internal table.
Hope this helps u.
Thanks,
Ruthra

Regarding Field Missing in Dso Transformation

Hi
Folks
I am facing the issue like
In Datasouce to DSO transformation i can see the 55 objects in DSO table, and in DSO to Cube Transformation i can see 54 fields in DSO table, one field is missing , the object 0TXTSH(short discription) is mapped to field 0TXZ01in DS to DSO transformation.
so How can i get the field in DSO to Cube transformation.??
any settings have to be change???
waiting for yours Valuable answers
Regards
Anand

Hi,
Please identify the object and check it whether it is an attribute or a characteristic, if it is attribute only disable that option then check it.
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I am having an issue regarding a placed order via customer service department

I recently relocated to Anchorage Alaska as part of a permanent change of station per the United States Air Force. I was initially located on the East Coast in the lower 48 and at the time of activating my contract I had purchased two separate Iphone 4 devices. I also recently went in to a store in February to purchase a Nexus 7 as well.
Upon arrival in Anchorage I had multiple issues regarding the Iphone 4 devices including being unable to send and receive text messages & imessages, unable to make phone calls, dropped phone calls, unable to utilize GPS, as well as not being able to access general account information and use anything related to web browsing or data usage. It was determined that because the Iphone 4 operates on the 3g network and Verizon does not have a 3g network in Alaska, as a result I was utilizing an extended service network from another carrier. As a result of this I am only able to use my Iphone 4 devices while connected to my wi-fi network while within my home, which is totally unacceptable.
I was not made aware that I would be dealing with this when I moved to Alaska and inquired as the the use of the devices I currently owned prior to purchasing the tablet. I was assured by three separate store employees one of which being a manager that all devices would function at 100% efficiency including the Iphone 4s. In fact I was recently billed 350$ for roaming charges last month, which prompted me to speak with a representative via the online chat regarding the significant increase she said that she was unable to process any sort of credit to the account regardless of what I had been told at a local Verizon store where I purchased the tablet.
As a result of all of these mishaps since arriving here in Alaska I determined I was in need of newer devices that utilize the 4G LTE network currently provided by Verizon in Alaska. I know for a fact that the 4G LTE works great up here because my Nexus 7 tablet runs flawlessly and does not incur roaming charges when utilizing the 4G LTE network.
Yesterday I attempted to contact Verizon through the live chat feature regarding upgrading two of the devices on my account. The live chat representative immediately asked me when my upgrade date was. Upon telling her my upgrade date 9/29/2014 she told me I should contact the customer service department as I might be eligible for an early upgrade. I then proceeded to contact the customer service department using my Iphone 4.
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After waiting an hour for the second representative to call back I grew impatient and contacted the customer service department, was put on hold again, and finally reached a third customer service representative who was able to provide a solution for me.
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I explained to Cory that I had been with Verizon for almost two years, and I had been on a relatives account prior to owning my own Verizon account and had never received this kind of treatment when trying to work towards a simple solution. Cory proceeded to tell me he needed to put me on hold to see if there was anything that could be done regarding the upgrades of the device considering all of the trouble I had been dealing with.
After Cory reconnected with me in the phone call he was able to successfully reach a solution by allowing me to upgrade my devices. We conversed about the options available and I eventually decided to upgrade both Iphone 4 devices to Moto X devices as we determined those would be sufficient for my needs while in Alaska. I also proceeded to add two Otter Box Defender cases to the order so that the devices would have sufficient protection. Cory inquired as to whether or not I would like to purchase insurance for the phones as well and I opted for the $5.00 monthly insurance which including damage and water protection.
Cory explained to me the grand total for the devices which included an activation fee of $35.00 for each device, $49.99 for each Otter Box case, and an additional $50.00 for each device which would be refunded as a rebate upon receipt of the devices and activation, a rebate that I would be required to submit. Cory explained to me that the devices would most likely arrive Tuesday of 6/17 and no later than Wednesday 6/18.
Cory took my shipping information and told me everything was all set and the only thing left to do was to transfer me to the automated service so that I could accept the 2 year agreement for both devices. I thanked him very much, took his name and ID# so that I might leave positive feedback about his exemplary customer service and was then transferred to the automated service.
Once transferred to the automated service I was then prompted to enter both telephone numbers for the devices that would be upgraded, I was then required to accept the new 2 year agreement for both devices and after doing so I was required to end the call. I did so in an orderly fashion and expected a confirmation # to arrive in my email regarding the placed order.
I have never received a confirmation email. I decided to sleep on it and assumed a confirmation email would be sent sometime tomorrow. Nothing has since been received however. I woke up early this morning around 6AM Alaska time to speak to another live chat representative, Bryan, in the billing department who assured me the order was currently processing and verified the order #. I asked him whether or not it was typical for a customer to not receive a confirmation email for an order placed and he said it can sometimes take up to 2-3 business days. He then stated that he had taken note of the issues I was experiencing and told me he would transfer me to the sales department as they would be able to provide more information regarding the shipment of both devices and a confirmation email, as he stated he did not want me to have to wait any longer than necessary to receive said devices.
I was then transferred to Devon in the sales department via the live chat service where I was then required to repeat everything I had said to both Bryan and the other representatives I had spoken too. After a lengthy discussion and repeating everything I have just wrote he told me the order was indeed processing and that he would send a confirmation email in the next 30 minutes.
That was 2 hours ago. It is now 8am Alaska time and I still have not received a confirmation email regarding my order. I was sent an email by Verizon an hour ago stating I had a device to "discover". The email contained no information regarding the shipment of my device, the order confirmation number, or anything regarding my account. The email I received was a typical spam email asking an individual to check out the current available phones and sign up for a new contract.
All I want is a confirmation email to assure that the devices are being sent. I need my phone for work and to communicate with my family in the lower 48. I desperately need to make sure that the device is in fact being sent to the proper address, this is why a confirmation email of the order is so important. I do not care about the shipping speed I just want what I ask to be taken care of for a change. I would hate to sit here unable to determine what the status of my devices are only for the order to be stuck in "processing" limbo and be unable to receive the devices when I was told they would be sent.
I feel I have been given the run around treatment way more than is typically given with any company when an individual is trying to work towards a solution. I have been patient and cordial with everyone I have spoken with, I have not raised my voice or shown stress or anger towards the situation I have only tried my best to work towards a solution with anyone I have spoken too but I am becoming increasingly frustrated with this situation.
Any help regarding this matter would be greatly appreciated. This situation has left a sour taste in my mouth and if the devices were indeed not actually processed in an order, or they were not shipped correctly, or in fact if the order had never existed at all it will only deter me from keeping my Verizon account active and affect my decision to switch to another provider.

Hello APVzW, we absolutely want the best path to resolution. My apologies for multiple attempts of replacing the device. We'd like to verify the order information and see if we can locate the tracking number. Please send a direct message with the order number so we can dive deeper. Here's steps to send a direct message: http://vz.to/1b8XnPy We look forward to hearing from you soon.
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 jobname_missing = 3
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 gs_jobsts1-jobcount = g_f_jobcount.
 gs_jobsts1-jobname = g_f_jobname.
 gs_jobsts1-spname = g_f_spname.
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 EXIT.
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 ENDIF.
 ENDLOOP.
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 EXIT.
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 ENDDO.
 ENDIF.
 ENDIF.
 IF sy-subrc <> 0.
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