Use of Create capacity CR11

Hi,
What is the use of creating capacity with CR11? After creating this with CR11 where can we use it? Can we use the same when we create a work center?
Rex

Hi,
Following link has the details.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/89/a41dcb461e11d182b50000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
I would suggest to please check the SAP Help documnetation, before you post basic queries and search the forum whether there is already any similar questions posted and answered.
Regards
Sreekanth

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Use of Create capacity CR21

Hi,
What is the use of creating capacity with CR21? After creating this with CR21 where can we use it? Can we use the same when we create a work center?
Rex

Hi,
CR21 is about the Work Centre Hierarchy. Below link gives you the details about the same. Also the second one has details on assiging capacities to the WC hierarchy.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/en/b1/c037a1439a11d189410000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PPCRP/PPCRP.pdf
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Sreekanth

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... What is the use for creating view?
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<< Personal information removed >>
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Query plan changes when query is used in CREATE TABLE AS

We've puzzled by the fact that EXPLAIN PLAN gives a much different output for a SELECT statement than it does when the same statement is used for CREATE TABLE . . . AS SELECT.
The bad part is that the CREATE TABLE version performs very badly, and that's what we want the query for.
Why does this happen? Is there a difference (from the database's point of view) between retrieving a set of rows to display to the user and putting that same set into a new table? Doesn't this make it harder to diagnose and fix query performance problems?
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create table query_test AS
select term, parentTerm, apidb.tab_to_string(cast(collect(trim(to_char(internal)))
                   as apidb.varchartab), ', ') as internal
             from (
                 select distinct ga.organism as term,
                                 ga.species as parentTerm,
                                 tn.taxon_id as internal
                 from apidb.GeneAttributes ga, SRES.TaxonName tn, sres.Taxon t,
                      dots.AaSequence aas, dots.SecondaryStructure ss
                 where ga.organism = tn.name
           and tn.taxon_id = t.taxon_id
                   and t.taxon_id = aas.taxon_id
   and aas.aa_sequence_id = ss.aa_sequence_id
           and t.rank != 'species'
           union
                 select distinct ga.species as term,
                   '' as parentTerm,
                                 ts.taxon_id as internal
                 from apidb.GeneAttributes ga, SRES.TaxonName tn, apidb.taxonSpecies ts,
                      dots.aasequence aas, dots.SecondaryStructure ss
                 where ga.organism = tn.name
                  and tn.taxon_id = ts.taxon_id
                  and ts.taxon_id = aas.taxon_id
                 and aas.aa_sequence_id = ss.aa_sequence_id
   group by term,parentTerm;Without the CREATE TABLE, the plan looks like this:
| Id | Operation                             | Name                      | Rows | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | CREATE TABLE STATEMENT                |                           | 2911 | 5986K|       | 18840   (1)| 00:03:47 |
|   1 | LOAD AS SELECT                       | QUERY_TEST                |       |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   VIEW                                |                           | 2911 | 5986K|       | 18669   (1)| 00:03:45 |
|   3 |    SORT GROUP BY                      |                           | 2911 |   332K|       | 18660   (1)| 00:03:44 |
|   4 |     VIEW                              |                           | 2911 |   332K|       | 18659   (1)| 00:03:44 |
|   5 |      SORT UNIQUE                      |                           | 2911 |   292K|       | 18659   (6)| 00:03:44 |
|   6 |       UNION-ALL                       |                           |       |       |       |            |          |
|* 7 |        HASH JOIN                      |                           | 2907 |   292K| 2160K| 17762   (1)| 00:03:34 |
|   8 |         TABLE ACCESS FULL             | GENEATTRIBUTES10650       | 40957 | 1679K|       |   795   (1)| 00:00:10 |
|* 9 |         HASH JOIN                     |                           | 53794 | 3204K| 1552K| 16675   (1)| 00:03:21 |
|* 10 |          HASH JOIN                    |                           | 37802 | 1107K|       | 12326   (1)| 00:02:28 |
|* 11 |           HASH JOIN                   |                           | 37945 |   629K|       | 10874   (1)| 00:02:11 |
| 12 |            INDEX FAST FULL SCAN       | SECONDARYSTRUCTURE_REVIX9 | 37945 |   222K|       |    33   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 13 |            INDEX FAST FULL SCAN       | AASEQUENCEIMP_REVIX6      | 7886K|    82M|       | 10816   (1)| 00:02:10 |
|* 14 |           TABLE ACCESS FULL           | TAXON                     |   514K| 6530K|       | 1450   (1)| 00:00:18 |
| 15 |          TABLE ACCESS FULL            | TAXONNAME                 |   760K|    22M|       | 2721   (1)| 00:00:33 |
|* 16 |        HASH JOIN                      |                           |     4 |   380 |       |   886   (1)| 00:00:11 |
| 17 |         NESTED LOOPS                  |                           |   730 | 64970 |       |   852   (1)| 00:00:11 |
|* 18 |          HASH JOIN                    |                           |     1 |    78 |       |   847   (1)| 00:00:11 |
| 19 |           NESTED LOOPS                |                           |       |       |       |            |          |
| 20 |            NESTED LOOPS               |                           |    17 |   612 |       |    51   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 21 |             TABLE ACCESS FULL         | TAXONSPECIES10646         |    12 |    60 |       |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 22 |             INDEX RANGE SCAN          | TAXONNAME_IND01           |     1 |       |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 23 |            TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TAXONNAME                 |     1 |    31 |       |     4   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 24 |           TABLE ACCESS FULL           | GENEATTRIBUTES10650       | 40957 | 1679K|       |   795   (1)| 00:00:10 |
|* 25 |          INDEX RANGE SCAN             | AASEQUENCEIMP_REVIX6      |   768 | 8448 |       |     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 26 |         INDEX FAST FULL SCAN          | SECONDARYSTRUCTURE_REVIX9 | 37945 |   222K|       |    33   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   7 - access("GA"."ORGANISM"="TN"."NAME")
   9 - access("TN"."TAXON_ID"="T"."TAXON_ID")
10 - access("T"."TAXON_ID"="TAXON_ID")
11 - access("AA_SEQUENCE_ID"="SS"."AA_SEQUENCE_ID")
14 - filter("T"."RANK"<>'species')
16 - access("AA_SEQUENCE_ID"="SS"."AA_SEQUENCE_ID")
18 - access("GA"."ORGANISM"="TN"."NAME")
22 - access("TN"."TAXON_ID"="TS"."TAXON_ID")
25 - access("TS"."TAXON_ID"="TAXON_ID")
46 rows selected.With the CREATE TABLE, the plan for the SELECT alone looks like this:
| Id | Operation                           | Name                      | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                    |                           |     2 |   234 | 1786   (1)| 00:00:22 |
|   1 | SORT GROUP BY                      |                           |     2 |   234 | 1786   (1)| 00:00:22 |
|   2 |   VIEW                              |                           |     2 |   234 | 1785   (1)| 00:00:22 |
|   3 |    SORT UNIQUE                      |                           |     2 |   198 | 1785 (48)| 00:00:22 |
|   4 |     UNION-ALL                       |                           |       |       |            |          |
|* 5 |      HASH JOIN                      |                           |     1 |   103 |   949   (1)| 00:00:12 |
|   6 |       NESTED LOOPS                  |                           |   199 | 19303 |   915   (1)| 00:00:11 |
|   7 |        NESTED LOOPS                 |                           |    13 | 1118 |   850   (1)| 00:00:11 |
|   8 |         NESTED LOOPS                |                           |    13 |   949 |   824   (1)| 00:00:10 |
|   9 |          VIEW                       | VW_DTP_E387155E           |    13 |   546 |   797   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 10 |           HASH UNIQUE               |                           |    13 |   546 |   797   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 11 |            TABLE ACCESS FULL        | GENEATTRIBUTES10650       | 40957 | 1679K|   795   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 12 |          TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TAXONNAME                 |     1 |    31 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 13 |           INDEX RANGE SCAN          | TAXONNAME_IND02           |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 14 |         TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | TAXON                     |     1 |    13 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 15 |          INDEX UNIQUE SCAN          | PK_TAXON                  |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 16 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN             | AASEQUENCEIMP_REVIX6      |    15 |   165 |     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 17 |       INDEX FAST FULL SCAN          | SECONDARYSTRUCTURE_REVIX9 | 37945 |   222K|    33   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 18 |      NESTED LOOPS                   |                           |     1 |    95 |   834   (1)| 00:00:11 |
| 19 |       NESTED LOOPS                  |                           |     1 |    89 |   833   (1)| 00:00:10 |
|* 20 |        HASH JOIN                    |                           |     1 |    78 |   828   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 21 |         NESTED LOOPS                |                           |       |       |            |          |
| 22 |          NESTED LOOPS               |                           |    13 |   949 |   824   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 23 |           VIEW                      | VW_DTP_2AAE9FCE           |    13 |   546 |   797   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 24 |            HASH UNIQUE              |                           |    13 |   546 |   797   (1)| 00:00:10 |
| 25 |             TABLE ACCESS FULL       | GENEATTRIBUTES10650       | 40957 | 1679K|   795   (1)| 00:00:10 |
|* 26 |           INDEX RANGE SCAN          | TAXONNAME_IND02           |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 27 |          TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TAXONNAME                 |     1 |    31 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 28 |         TABLE ACCESS FULL           | TAXONSPECIES10646         |    12 |    60 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 29 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN             | AASEQUENCEIMP_REVIX6      |   768 | 8448 |     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 30 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN              | SECONDARYSTRUCTURE_REVIX9 |     1 |     6 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   5 - access("AA_SEQUENCE_ID"="SS"."AA_SEQUENCE_ID")
13 - access("ITEM_1"="TN"."NAME")
14 - filter("T"."RANK"<>'species')
15 - access("TN"."TAXON_ID"="T"."TAXON_ID")
16 - access("T"."TAXON_ID"="TAXON_ID")
20 - access("TN"."TAXON_ID"="TS"."TAXON_ID")
26 - access("ITEM_1"="TN"."NAME")
29 - access("TS"."TAXON_ID"="TAXON_ID")
30 - access("AA_SEQUENCE_ID"="SS"."AA_SEQUENCE_ID")
50 rows selected.Edited by: JohnI on Jul 18, 2011 2:19 PM
Edited by: JohnI on Jul 18, 2011 2:28 PM

Charles Hooper wrote a series of blog entries on a similar topic some time ago: http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/select-statement-is-fast-insert-into-using-the-select-statement-is-brutally-slow-1/ (including a lot of useful comments) and two following articles. I have to confess that I did not read the posts again - but I think you will find some good ideas how to analyze the problem.
Regards
Martin Preiss

JPA - TroubleShooting - Error in Datatypes used in Creating Tables

h1. JPA - TroubleShooting - Error in Datatypes used in Creating Tables
h2. Error Description
The error appears when JPA is trying to automatically
generate tables from Entities. It uses types it shouldn't because they aren't
supported by the Database Engine. If you examine the createDDL.jdbc file you
are going to find not supported data types. You could run the statements that
are listed there directly to your Database Engine and find out that they don`t
run generating syntax errors like the error posted below.
h3. Query example (statement)
CREATE TABLE SEQUENCE (SEQ_NAME VARCHAR(50), SEQ_COUNT NUMBER(19))h3. PostgreSQL Error whent trying to execute the statment
CREATE TABLE SEQUENCE (SEQ_NAME VARCHAR(50),
SEQ_COUNT NUMBER(19))": org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax
error near "("
h3. MSSQL 2000 Error when trying to execute the statement:
[CREATE - 0 row(s), 0.578 secs] [Error Code: 2715, SQL State: HY000] [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for
JDBC][SQLServer]Column or parameter #1: Cannot find data type NUMBER
h3. FireBird Error when trying to execute the statment
Dynamic SQL Error
SQL error code = -104
Token unknown - line 1, char 62
Statement: CREATE TABLE SEQUENCE (SEQ_NAME VARCHAR(50),
SEQ_COUNT NUMBER(19))
h2. TroubleShooting
Looks like it wants "NUMERIC", not "NUMBER".
[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC]
I had this problem using Firebird. I found out it had to do
with the database jdbc driver. I tried using a different database engine, like
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the corresponding driver and it worked as it
should. I suspect the JDBC driver has to supply in some way the datatypes it
supports to JPA TopLink Library.
Edited by: juanemc2 on Apr 1, 2008 7:39 AM

In Hibernate you can supply the "dialect" to use for SQL generation. I assume TopLink to have a similar functionality.
This is not a generic JPA issue, but rather something with the specific implementation you're using.
Or rather it is a generic SQL issue, caused by different database engines using slightly (or not so slightly) different SQL syntax which causes problems when generating SQL automatically.

Problems using projects created in older versions of iMovie

I have a few projects created in older versions of iMovie, as far back as version 2 as well as more recent versions. Most of those projects are finished and I want to burn them to DVD again, but a couple of them could bear a little touch up editing. These projects are precious movies of our kids and hard to replace. Although I could probably find the original video, I put many hours of work into creating these projects.
In any case, when I open up an old project, I get a warning that goes something like this: "The project was saved with an older version of iMovie. Opening it in this version will cause it to be upgraded, which will make it unreadable by older versions. Are you sure you want to open it?"
I clicked okay, thinking "sure, I don't need to play it in an older version. I have iMovie HD."
However, now when I play my old iMovie project, there are a few problems. For example, one original movie's title was over black. When I play the movie, I get a completely white screen and no title. Also, in another movie, when viewing the movie in full screen, the transitions were replaced by a black screen (although the transitions were there when I viewed the movie in the iMovie window). Basically, there are problems cropping up here and there.
I need to do some more experimenting with all this to more fully understand how many problems there are. I don't know if the projects I opened in iMovie HD are now "broken" since I "upgraded" them with iMovie HD (when prompted to save the project's changes when quitting, I said NO, don't save changes).
I don't know if I should use older versions of iMovie to view and burn to DVD these projects. (I still have iMovie 2 and 3, but not 4 or 5. I don't know if older versions would even work on my Quad G5 with OS 10.4.7.) I also don't know if the older versions of iMovie would work with the current version of iDVD. How can I tell which version of iMovie was originally used for a given project? How can I find iMovie 4 or 5 if I need it?
I also wonder if projects I make with iMovie HD can be opened by future versions of iMovie, or if I should export them as Quicktime or something to be safe.
As I start to look into this further, I would appreciate any comments, suggestions, and experiences that you may be able to offer. I need to get these movies back to their former selves, when they looked good!
Message was edited by: Anthony M Kassir MD

(when prompted to save the project's changes when
quitting, I said NO, don't save changes).
Excellent! That should leave you in pretty good shape. More below.
I don't know if I should use older versions of iMovie
to view and burn to DVD these projects. (I still have
iMovie 2 and 3, but not 4 or 5. I don't know if older
versions would even work on my Quad G5 with OS
10.4.7.)
The old versions of iMovie will run just fine in today's OSX. (But not iMovie 2 if it was the version that ran in Classic instead of Mac OSX.)
I run versions 2,3,4,5 and 6 today. Problems are minimal.
I also don't know if the older versions of
iMovie would work with the current version of iDVD.
That's not a problem unless your old iMovie projects contain chapters. If you tell iMovie 3 to create a new iDVD project, it might not work. You might not be able to transfer the chapter information to the newer version of iDVD.
(I just tested iMovie 3 to iDVD 6 and everything worked just fine.)
Except for iMovie 2, all old versions of iMovie stored a small QuickTime reference movie in the project folder. If you can't get an old version of iMovie to play nice with iDVD, drag that movie into the iDVD window.
How can I tell which version of iMovie was originally
used for a given project?
Drop the project file (discussed below) onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock. The version of iMovie that last saved the project is shown in the first few lines of the project file.
iMovie 5 used an entirely different project file format, the pList format. The top of the project file will look like this in TextEdit:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
How can I find iMovie 4 or
5 if I need it?
eBay?
I also wonder if projects I make with iMovie HD can
be opened by future versions of iMovie, or if I
should export them as Quicktime or something to be
safe.
We can never assume any new version of iMovie will be able to understand all features of a older project. It's always smart to make a backup.
There can be problems Apple can't anticipate. There may be third-party software used to create titles, transitions and special effects, plug-ins not installed with the new version or (more often, incompatible). The fonts installed on our Mac may have changed too. There's lots of features that can't be anticipated. I've never had a problem converting projects, but I never use third-party add-ons and special fonts.
As I start to look into this further, I would
appreciate any comments, suggestions, and experiences
that you may be able to offer. I need to get these
movies back to their former selves, when they looked
good!
My guess is it should be possible to restore the projects back to their original state.
Note that when imovie 5/6 converts an older project, it does NOT create a true iMovie HD project. Instead of creating an iMovie package, it retains the project FOLDER format. It places new iMovie HD elements inside the old project folder instead of converting it to a package.
When converting the project it changes the old project file name to "Sample Project Name.iMovie2Project", then creates a NEW project file with the plist format, having the name "Sample Project Name.iMovieProj". (There may NOT be the .iMovieProj extension.) When you save the new project, it adds a new project file "Sample Project Name.~iMovieProj". Note the tilde. The tilde file is a backup of the project file as it was when last saved in iMovie HD.
For our purposes, ignore the iMovie HD project files. We'll use the file ".iMovie2Project" to restore the project. (The extension is the same for all old versions of iMovie, not just iMovie 2.)
• In the Finder, Duplicate the entire project folder. Work on the copy.
• Open the project folder in the Finder.
• Discard the "Cache" folder, the "Shared Movies" folder, the "Audio Waveforms" folder and the two iMovie HD project files. (Some of those items may not yet exist yet because you didn't save the converted project.)
• Drop the "Sample Project Name.iMovie2Project" file onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock to get the version. Close it.
• Remove the ".iMovie2Project" extension, if you want.
• Launch that version of iMovie. Drop the "Sample Project Name.iMovie2Project" file icon on the iMovie icon in the Dock. With luck, the project should open normally. It's possible any third-party plug-ins used to create the project may not be available. If they aren't available, there might still be problems.
• Move your unconverted projects to folders that say which version of iMovie created them. To open them in the future, drop the project icon on the appropriate version of iMovie.
If all this fails, there is another way to do the editing you want. That is to import the project.mov file that's inside the converted project folder to a new iMovie HD project. That will deliver the video and audio of the original project as a single clip. Use that to re-edit the project. The name of the movie is "Sample Project Name.mov".
(The movie is a QuickTime reference movie, with no video and audio of its own, just pointers to the files in the Media folder. So long as the Media folder hasn't changed, it can play the original project as last saved.)
Importing the project.mov won't work with iMovie 2 projects, however, for iMovie 2 didn't store a project.mov file in the project folder.
Even if you end up importing the project.mov, you still may want to "unconvert" the project as described above.
Hope I haven't skipped a step. Let me know if you bump your head on something.
Karl

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