To_CHAR in OBIEE

Hello All,
I have 2 tables variance_trend and monthly_variance.
Both tables have load_date column.
In variance_trend it is varchar in the format YYYYMM, in monthly_variance load_date is date data type.
I am trying to convert monthly_variance.load_date to YYYYMM.I can acheive this by going to data format and select custom format etc.
But the problem is here i am doing union between these two columns.
Its throwing me error because these 2 columns are inconsistent data types.(one is varchar another is date).
In sql i can use to_char(monthly_variance,'YYYYMM') function to acheive this.
How can i acheive this in OBIEE without creating any views in database.
Thanks in advance.

Hi ,
Thanks for your reply.
Since month(monthly_variance.load_date) return the month value in single digits for 1 to 9, instead of 200901 i am getting 20091 for the month January and so on.
I looked into functions , but i could not find any lpad function.
Is there any other function similar to lapd in OBIEE?
Thanks in advance.

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http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/de/community/apex/tipps/biee-apex/index.html
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l_valid_to DATE;
l_count NUMBER;
l_password VARCHAR2(4000);
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WHERE valid_to < TRUNC(SYSDATE,'DD');
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(     "USERNAME"     VARCHAR2(60),
     "SESSION_ID"     NUMBER,
     "VALID_TO"     DATE,
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-- used as page sentry function in APEX applications
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IS
l_current_sid NUMBER;
l_biee_userid VARCHAR2(255);
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l_cookie_tom owa_cookie.cookie;
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l_session_id NUMBER;
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FROM apex_biee_session
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p_session_id => l_current_sid);
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p_user =>UPPER(l_biee_userid),
p_session_id =>l_current_sid);
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In APEX 4.0 the call of apex_custom_auth.get_session_id returned the APEX session id.
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Kind Regards,
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Edited by: asmodius1 on Jan 10, 2013 2:06 PM

Hi,
this integration relies on session fixation, that's an insecure practice which is not allowed anymore since 4.1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_fixation
Since the cookie value for the session id is missing, Apex rejects the session id and sets it to null, before calling the sentry function.
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exists.
Regards,
Christian

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Hi,
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*" Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW) "*
I added two KPI's (KPI 1 & KPI 2)into that Watchlist , one from the default "Sample Sales Lite" (sub 1) and another from sub 2 which have essbase as data source .
KPI 1 (created from sub 1) is working fine , but while placing KPI 2 (created from sub 2 ) in the watchlist , its throwing the above error . However , while running KPI 2 individually , its showing meaningful results .
Let me know if the problem statement is not clear .
OBIEE version used : 11.1.1.5.0 .

Could anyone reply this thread. I am also getting the same error . Even server logs are also not helping.

OBIEE 11g - without going to Sawbridge first.....

If you called OBIEE via the default path: http://domain-name/analytics?NQuser=xxx&NQpassword=xxxx
instead of
http://domain-name/analytics/saw.dll?NQzuser=xxx&NQpassword=xxxx
would your credentials be checked by weblogic before the default login jsp has access to the request parameters or after?
Or does weblogic/OBIEE stop you passing parameters to the default URL?
What I'm trying to say is, if you go via the default domain without calling saw.dll first can you pass an encrypted password to your bespoke login.jsp (default.jsp) within the analytics domain and get this default.jsp
to convert the password to plain text and then this default.jsp calls (forwards) to saw.dll....

I have been trying to log in with my YouTube account name and password like usual. I just tried using my gmail log in and it works. Did they merge or something? It was working yesterday just fine without me changing the way I logged in. Either way, thanks for the help! Works great now
Message was edited by: EvoXFTW

Error while creating Bi presentation service in obiee(11.1.1.3)

Hi,
Im using Jdeveloper(11.1.1.5) and OBIEE(11.1.1.3)
I created a ADF application in Jdev and when I try to create a BI presentation services I'm getting the following error message.
*Connection attempt failed.*
*java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to retrieve logon token. This version requires a BI build that implements the version 7 SOAP interface. Please verify that you are using the correct BI version.*
does the creation of presentation service in jdev(11.1.15) work only with OBIEE(11.1.1.5) and not OBIEE(11.1.1.3).
please help!
Thanks,
Venky
Edited by: Venky on Jul 26, 2011 2:02 PM
Edited by: Venky on Jul 27, 2011 6:18 AM

Venky,
The SOAP interface released with OBIEE 11.1.1.3 is version 6 (v6) as you can see from its WSDL URL.
This would leave one only to believe that the SOAP interface released with OBIEE 11.1.1.5 is version 7.

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