Peoplesoft WorkCenter

How to Configure WorkCenter in PeopleSoft

Creating a workcenter in peoplesoft is a pretty easy process. In this post I will teach you a step by step process on how to configure a workcenter in peoplesoft. I completed these steps using PeopleSoft Financials 9.2 with PeopleTools 8.55.15. 1. Configure Navigation Collection PeopleTools > Portal > Portal Utilities > Navigation Collections Click Add Collection Enter a name for your navigation collection Add Links to Menu Items and Folders as needed for your navigation collection Click Publish Collection Tab Click Navigation Pagelet Checkbox Select category for pagelet in the Pagelet Category Dropdown (Common WorkCenter Pagelets is what I selected) Click Save 2....

April 23, 2018 · John Levandowski
Star Schema Dimensional Model

Dimension Table: 7 Best Practices

A dimension table is one of the 2 primary building blocks of a dimensional data model. The other primary type of table is the fact table. This post will describe 7 best practices for designing a dimension table. What is the purpose of a Dimension Table A dimension table is the primary way to filter and group results from a fact table. A fact table is almost useless by itself, as you need to give some descriptive attributes to provide context to the data....

May 6, 2014 · John Levandowski
Informatica

Informatica Mapping Insert Update Delete

There are situations where you need to keep a source and target in sync. One method to do this is to truncate and reload. However this method is not that efficient for a table with millions of rows of data. You really only want to: insert rows from the source that don’t exist in the target update rows that have changed delete rows from the target that no longer exist in the source Can you do this efficiently in a single informatica mapping?...

March 2, 2012 · John Levandowski
Oracle PeopleSoft

Flattening PeopleSoft Summer Tree

If you need to denormalize or flatten PeopleSoft summer trees (trees with leaves) in your data warehouse, here is an ETL process for you to follow. Typical PeopleSoft summer tree structure SQL to flatten the PeopleSoft summer tree Substitute TREE_NAME with the name(s) of your summer tree(s) on line 54 below. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 SELECT SQ4....

February 20, 2012 · John Levandowski
Business Intelligence

Oracle Disable Indexes and Constraints During Insert

If you are attempting to insert millions of rows into an oracle database, you may want to temporarily disable indexes and constraints to improve the speed of the load. Here are 5 steps to follow that will disable constraints and make indexes unusable. You need to substitute the OWNER and TABLE on line 5 and 6 respectively in each statement. 1. Disable Constraints 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 BEGIN FOR cur IN (SELECT OWNER, CONSTRAINT_NAME , TABLE_NAME FROM all_constraints WHERE OWNER = 'OWNER' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TABLE') LOOP EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER TABLE '||cur....

February 19, 2012 · John Levandowski