Example: Create a data mart from the command line

The workload is from the following query:

SELECT {+ FACT(orders)} first 5 fname,lname,sum(ship_weight) 
   FROM customer c,orders o 
   WHERE c.customer_num=o.customer_num 
   and state='CA' and ship_date is not null 
   GROUP BY 1,2 
   ORDER BY 3 desc;    

The query selects the names of the top five customers from the state CA and the total ship weight of their already shipped orders. The query is an inner join. The orders table is the fact table. The customer table is the dimension table. Since the orders table has fewer rows than the customer table, the {+ FACT(orders)} optimizer hint is required. Otherwise, the customer table would be considered as the fact table.

Connect to the database. This example uses the stores_demo database:

$ dbaccess stores_demo -
Database selected.

Update the statistics on the database:

> update statistics low; 
Statistics updated.

Remove previously existing probing results:

> set environment use_dwa 'probe cleanup';
Environment set.

Enable query probing:

> set environment use_dwa 'probe start'; 
Environment set.

In a separate session, connect as user informix to the sysadmin database and activate SQL tracing:

$ dbaccess sysadmin -
> execute function task("set sql tracing on","1500","4","low", "global"); 
(expression)  SQL Tracing ON: ntraces=1500, size=4056, level=Low, mode=Global. 
1 row(s) retrieved.

When you issue this statement, the queries are optimized and probed but a result set is not determined or returned.

> set explain on avoid_execute; 
Explain set.

Using this example, the SQL statements are:

> SELECT {+ FACT(orders)} first 5 fname,lname,sum(ship_weight) 
  FROM customer c,orders o 
  WHERE c.customer_num=o.customer_num and state='CA' 
  and ship_date is notnull 
  GROUP BY by 1,2 
  ORDER BY by 3 desc; 
  fname           lname                      (sum) 
No rows found.

The reason no rows are returned in this example is that the SET EXPLAIN ON AVOID_EXECUTE statement has been used.

Disable query probing:

> set environment use_dwa 'probe stop'; 
Environment set.

To use the onstat command:

$ onstat -g his

HCL Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC3 -- On-Line -- Up 00:53:06 --
182532 Kbytes

Statement history:

Trace Level                   Low
Trace Mode                 Global
Number of traces             1500
Current Stmt ID                 2
Trace Buffer size            4056
Duration of buffer             42 Seconds
Trace Flags            0x00001611
Control Block          0x4dd51028



Statement # 2:     @ 0x4dd51058

 Database:        0x100153
 Statement text:
  select {+ FACT(orders)} first 5 fname,lname,sum(ship_weight) 
			from customer c,orders o 
    where c.customer_num=o.customer_num and state='CA' and
    ship_date is not null group by 1,2 order by 3 desc

 Statement information:
  Sess_id  User_id  Stmt Type        Finish Time    Run Time   TX Stamp   PDQ
  51       29574    SELECT           10:39:09       0.0000     33f4e      0

 Statement Statistics:
  Page       Buffer     Read       Buffer     Page       Buffer     Write
  Read       Read       % Cache    IDX Read   Write      Write      % Cache
  0          0          0.00       0          0          0          0.00

  Lock       Lock       LK Wait    Log        Num        Disk       Memory
  Requests   Waits      Time (S)   Space      Sorts      Sorts      Sorts
  0          0          0.0000     0.000 B    0          0          0

  Total      Total      Avg        Max        Avg        I/O Wait   Avg Rows
  Executions Time (S)   Time (S)   Time (S)   IO Wait    Time (S)   Per Sec
  1          0.0000     0.0000     0.0000     0.000000   0.000000   678122.8357

  Estimated  Estimated  Actual     SQL        ISAM       Isolation  SQL
  Cost       Rows       Rows       Error      Error      Level      Memory
  10         2          0          0          0          NL         25304

To query the SMI tables to view the SQL trace information:

> SELECT sql_id,sql_runtime, sql_statement 
  FROM sysmaster:syssqltrace 
  WHERE ql_stmtname='SELECT' 
  ORDER BY sql_runtime desc;

sql_id         2
sql_runtime    1.47450285e-06
sql_statement  select {+ FACT(orders)} first 5 fname,lname,sum(ship_weight)
               from customer c,orders o where c.customer_num=o.customer_num
               and state='CA' and ship_date is not null group by 1,2 order by 3 desc

The stores_demo database is not a logging database. A different database is required to store the data mart schema tables generated by running the ifx_probe2mart() stored procedure:

$ dbaccess - -
> create database stores_marts with log;
Database created.

Run the ifx_probe2mart() stored procedure to create the definition for data mart 'orders_customer_mart':

> execute procedure ifx_probe2mart('stores_demo','orders_customer_mart');
Routine executed.

Remove probing data gathered in the warehouse database:

$ dbaccess stores_demo -
> set environment use_dwa 'probe stop'; 
Environment set.

Connect to the schema database stores_marts, where the data mart definition that was generated by the ifx_probe2mart() stored procedure is stored:

$ dbaccess stores_marts -
> execute function lotofile(ifx_genmartdef('orders_customer_mart'),
  'orders_customer_mart.xml!','client');
(expression)  orders_customer_mart.xml
1 row(s) retrieved.

To view the contents of the data mart definition file:

$ cat orders_customer_mart.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<dwa:martModel xmlns:dwa="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/dwa" version="1.0">
  <mart name="orders_customer_mart">
    <table name="customer" schema="informix" isFactTable="false" >  
      <column name="customer_num"/>
      <column name="fname"/>
      <column name="lname"/>
      <column name="state"/>
    </table>
    <table name="orders" schema="informix" isFactTable="true" >
      <column name="customer_num"/>
      <column name="ship_date"/>
      <column name="ship_weight"/>
    </table>
    <reference
      referenceType="LEFTOUTER"
      isRuntimeJoin="true"
      parentCardinality="1"
      dependentCardinality="n"
      dependentTableSchema="informix"
      dependentTableName="orders"
      parentTableSchema="informix"
      parentTableName="customer">
       <parentColumn name="customer_num"/>
       <dependentColumn name="customer_num"/>
    </reference>
  </mart>
</dwa:martModel>

Create the data mart orders_customer_mart on your accelerator stores_accelerator, by using schema database stores_marts:

$ dbaccess stores_demo -
> EXECUTE FUNCTION ifx_createMart('stores_accelerator', 'orders_customer_mart', 
  'stores_marts');
(expression)   The operation was completed successfully. 
1 row(s) retrieved.

Load the data mart orders_customer_mart on your accelerator stores_accelerator. Tables in database stores_demo do not become locked:

> EXECUTE FUNCTION ifx_loadMart('stores_accelerator', 'orders_customer_mart', 
  'NONE');
(expression)   The operation was completed successfully. 
1 row(s) retrieved.