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Question Tom Scaletti · May 11

I need to analyse and improve the performance on some old SQL statements.

One statement uses NVL in the WHERE clause (no wonder why it's slow) but I still have to improve the performance and the data really needs to be the same when returned.

SELECT *
FROM TOURHead, TOURFIND, SGNRFIND, TNRHead
WHERE TOURHead.cl = '123'
AND TOURHead.cl = TOURFIND.cl
AND TOURHead.TOURNR = TOURFIND.TOURNR
AND TOURFIND.cl =* SGNRFIND.cl
AND TOURFIND.SGNR    =* SGNRFIND.SGNR
AND TOURFIND.cl = TNRHead.cl
AND NVL(TOURFIND.TNR, SGNRFIND.TNR) = TNRHead.TNR;

Really hope someone can help me with this one.

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Question Scott Roth · Mar 23

I have created the following Task to kick off a Ens.BusinessService to execute a SQL query and process the results

Class OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{

Parameter TaskName As STRING = "OSU - Workday Termination Update";

Method OnTask() As %Status
{
    #Dim sc as %Status
    #Dim ex as %Exception.AbstractException
    
    set sc = $$$OK

    try{
        // create the service
        #Dim tService As OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService
        Set tServiceConfigName = "OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService"
        
        // Call BusinessService
        $$$ThrowOnError(##class(Ens.Director).CreateBusinessService(tServiceConfigName,.tService))
        $$$ThrowOnError(tService.Adapter.OnTask())
        set (tHint) = ""
    }catch ex{
        set tSC = ex.AsStatus()
    }
    quit tSC
}

ClassMethod TestTask()
{
	set tTask = ##class(OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask).%New()
	$$$ThrowOnError(tTask.OnTask())
}

/// Location and Revision of this file in Perforce (Auto-updating)
Parameter SrcVer = "$Id$";

}
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Question Scott Roth · Mar 10

How can I create a Task that tells a Ens.BusinessService to execute its SQL query using the EnsLib.SQL.InboundAdapter?

So far I have come up with

Class OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{

Parameter TaskName As STRING = "OSU - Workday Termination Update";

Method OnTask() As %Status
{
    try{
        // Call BusinessService
        set tSC = ##class(Ens.Director).CreateBusinessService("OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService",.tService)

        if $IsObject(tService){
            set inputMessage = ##class(Ens.StringContainer).%New()
            set inputMessage.StringValue = "1"
            Set tSC = tService.ProcessInput(inputMessage,.output)
        } Else {
            Set tSC = $$$ERROR($System.Status.GetErrorCodes(tSC), "Failed to create Business Service")
        }
    }catch ex{
        set tSC = ex.AsStatus()
    }
    quit tSC
}

/// Location and Revision of this file in Perforce (Auto-updating)
Parameter SrcVer = "$Id: //custom_ccrs/us/OSUM/OSUMHSCUSTOM/UAT/cls/OSU/Workday/TerminationsTask.xml#20 $";

}
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Question Hour Abdellatif · Mar 9

I’m trying to find a way to manage globals from our Java application. We have two separate features:

  • Managing tables normally using SQL

  • Managing globals, since some globals exist without class or table definitions

Cache version : Cache for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86-64) 2016.1.1 (Build 108U_SU), Thu Jul 7 2016 09:39:04 EDT

I tried to retrieve the globals tree, update node values, and append nodes using SQL by calling stored procedures, but I couldn’t find any procedures for adding, updating, or deleting nodes.

I also tried using cacheextreme.jar to access the globals API directly.

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Question Enrico Parisi · Feb 19

I need to reproduce a table (in fact a view, but let's start with a simple table 😊) in IRIS as the currently used in Oracle.

I need to expose/project one column to JDBC as CLOB, in my class I have the corresponding property defined as:

Property GlobStream As %Stream.GlobalCharacter;

In JDBC this column is projected as LONGVARCHAR, this is compliant with the documentation but I need to project it as CLOB.

In addition, I'm no expert in JDBC but wit seems that LONGVARCHAR has a Maximum Length 32,700 characters in JDBC, not quite enough for an arbitrary stream.

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Question Hour Abdellatif · Jan 26

Hello everyone,

My team lead mentioned that users can sometimes create globals directly without associating them with tables or classes. In this case, these globals would not be accessible via SQL.

Is this correct? Can a global exist independently in this way, and if so, is there a specific approach to access or manage them without SQL?

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Question Scott Roth · Jan 13

New to using Analytics and using Dashboards. We have this Report, SQL Query that lists out the Activity per Data Source in Health Share Provider Directory. Instead of running it as a report, because it takes a while to run, was wondering if there is a way to do this as a Dashboard instead.

How can I take the SQL from this report and create a Dashboard instead?

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Question Scott Roth · Jan 2

Defining my first REST API within InterSystems using iris-rest-Api-template as a basis and I am seeing if someone could provide me some guidance to see if I can make it work.  

In some of my other posts, I have been trying to come up with a way for our Enterprise Application Development team which works with .Net to build Applications to make a REST call to our instance of InterSystems to query some of the Cache Tables we have defined. 

Using the iris-rest-api-template, I have created the osuwmc.DataLookup.REST.Base.cls

ClassExtends%CSP.REST"application/json"
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Question Scott Roth · Jan 2

There is a Master Table within IRIS that I am populating from Epic but want to share it with our Enterprise Application Development Team (Web). As a test I was able to use _SYSTEM from postman to execute the following.

POST /api/atelier/v1/xxxx/action/query HTTP/1.1
Host: xxxxxxxx
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: ••••••
Cookie: CSPSESSIONID-SP-443-UP-api-atelier-=00f0000000000AKyLjBfUvU$MpFD8UT8y$EoNKNw1ixZeXN4_Q; CSPWSERVERID=hzZAT5rb
Content-Length: 86

{"query": "SELECT * FROM osuwmc_Epic_Clarity.DepartmentMaster WHERE ID = '300000000'"}
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Question Evgeny Shvarov · Dec 28, 2025

Hi developers!

There is a neat feature of ObjectScript classes - Query element, which allows you to write in a clear SQL (without any & or ()), pass parameters to it and call it from ObjectScript as do QueryNameFunc() or via Call SQLProcedureName via SQL, .e.g.

Query MyQuery(p as%String

All works fine, but when I tried to use the same for a DELETE statement see the following error:

SELECT expected, DELETE found ^ DECLARE Q1 CURSOR FOR DELETE

Is the Query element for SELECT only? What am I doing wrong? )

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Question Scott Roth · Dec 17, 2025

I want to extract data from IRIS (Health Share Provider Directory) and write the data out to a file that I can use within an external system. Using EnsLib.SQL.Service.GenericService do I need to supply Credentials if I am querying IRIS locally? I have always used JDBC to connect externally when creating Services and Operations to read/write SQL data from external Databases, but never internally. Normally I would just use sql or code to pull the data within a Process or DTC. But in this case, I want the Service to drive the workflow, and query the data from Local Tables

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Question Scott Roth · Jul 11, 2024

Could someone explain how and why a HL7 ACK be showing up as a Orphaned message when I run the following SQL...
 

SELECTFROMLEFT

I am trying to find the problem code that is causing the Orphaned messages, and an ACK showing up seems kind of Odd. While we do have Archive IO/Trace on, and Index NOT OK's set why would they show up as Orphaned messages?

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Question David.Satorres6134 · Oct 9, 2023

Hello all,

I'm trying to build a cube based on a linked table but seems that IRIS is not able to do it :O

Long story short, I have a linked table in IRIS that sources a Microsoft SQL table (using standard linked feature from the portal). It works fine, I can access it using SQL as many other times. On top of that, I've created in DeepSee (ok, Analytics) a cube that uses this class as source. It compiles correctly, no errors given. When I build it with 100 records, all goes well and using Analyzer I can see results.

Existing cube deleted.
Fact table built:             1,000 fact(s) (Max number of worker(s) used at a time: 1)
Fact indices built:           1,000 fact(s) (1 worker(s) used)

Complete
Elapsed time:                  1.788246s
Source expression time:        0.000856s
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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Oct 16, 2025

Hi community.
I have a query:

SELECTFROMSELECT

This query should filter the data by the minimum value of the somDate field, but it doesn't. It displays all values ​​together, regardless of the external filter. The exact same query (without the $$$ tokens, of course) works fine in a regular SQL runtime.
My guess is that the $$$RESTRICT does this

WHERE source.%ID IN (

And outer WHERE is just left unseen
Is there a way to fix this?

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Question Mary George · Oct 8, 2025

Hi Team, 

Can I please check if anyone has built a simple web interface for maintaining custom SQL lookup class.  

We have a simple persistent class in HealthShare which is used for storing Pathology test codes. Test codes in this lookup class is used for message filtering and applying additional logic when processing pathology results/orders. 

We want to make this class available to external users from pathology (not the usual management portal users) to maintain so that they can add/edit/delete test codes as required.

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Question Krishnamuthu Venkatachalam · May 7, 2018

Is there a way to create a table for the results of a SQL statement ?

Example: Consider the below query and results.

Select ID,Name,DOB,Gender from EMS.EMS

RESULT 

ID NAME DOB Gender
1 Wijnschenk,Greta N. 03/09/2009 F
2 Klausner,Barbara L. 03/08/2014 M
3 Eastman,Liza X. 03/11/2000 F
4 O'Brien,Barb K. 03/07/2016 M
5 Anderson,Nataliya Y. 03/14/1991 F
6 Long,Debby Z. 03/12/1999 F
7 Rogers,Susan W. 03/12/1997 F
8 Ott,Lola J. 03/09/2009 F
9 Yu,Alice S. 03/14/1990 M
10 Wilson,Debby I.
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Question Scott Roth · Sep 8, 2025

We currently have Business Operation that we built to use the EnsLib.SQL.OutboundAdapter so we can make Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedure calls. The BO is attached to a Java Gateway Service.

Some of our MS SQL Databases have moved from being OnPrem to Azure Cloud. We have started seeing where we are receiving errors on the BO saying that we cannot connect to the Azure Database, but we never receive a Disconnect from the Azure Database.

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Question Scott Roth · Aug 4, 2025

I am trying to help another group within our organization access a SQL Table that I have created to populate Epic Department Data within our environment and came across the ability to use SQL Seach REST Interface using iKnow.

However, I am having issues trying to get it to work via POSTMAN before I hand off the solution...

the POST URL... https://<servername>/api/iKnow/latest/TESTCLIN/table/osuwmc_Epic_Clarity.DepartmentMaster/search

where osuwmc_Epic_Clarity.DepartmentMaster is the table

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Question 지용 김 · Sep 4, 2025

Hello,

I am currently maintaining a legacy application that was developed in ObjectScript and accesses data by working directly with globals.
For a new program, however, I plan to access the same global data through SQL-mapped classes.

I have two questions regarding this approach:

  1. If I define indexes in the SQL-mapped class, what potential impact (if any) could this have on the existing legacy application that directly accesses the globals?
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Question Scott Roth · Aug 28, 2025

I had a need for a Filter, but did not want to recreate the wheel by creating another Data Lookup Table, so instead I created a Linked Table that points to a MS SQL Table outside of IRIS.

Once I had the Linked Table, I created a Class Method Function that would query the Linked Table and return a 1 if a result came back.

ClassMethodAs%StringSELECTINTOFROM

However, it doesn't seem like the Results of the Class Method are coming back correctly 100% of the time.

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Question Dmitrii Baranov · Aug 8, 2025

I have a table with 5M rows, the table contains lab observation codes and display names, both columns have type varchar(2000) and both are indexed.

The query looks like:

select code_1_text, count(code_1_text)
  from demo.observation_lab
  group by code_1_text
  order by 2 desc

The table contains ~1000 distinct display names.

It takes 4 minutes for the query to complete on a VM with some pretty old Xeon, 4 cores, 32G RAM, NVME SSD and Linux on board.

Isn't it too slow?

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Question John Hotalen · Jul 25, 2025

Hello to all the Cache Experts out there and Happy Friday!

The company I work for uses Cache 2017.1.3 and we have been seeing intermittent errors in the Cache Error Trap when an SQL query runs.   The error message looks like the error is occurring within the cached query routine that Cache auto-generates.  Unfortunately, when I pulled up the routine in the SMP System Explorer, I only found an obj version, so was unable to look at any code.

Here is the error:    Note:  the .

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Question steven Henry · Jul 10, 2025

Hello my friends,

I have a problem with Objectscript, why the value of address become like this ?

everything works fine except the Address,

this is my code, do I need something to make this into real address ? should I put something in my code ? 

 set paper=obj.PAADMPAPMIDR.PAPMIPAPERDR

            if '$isobject(paper) continue

            set Address=paper.PAPERStName

thank you for your help

Best Regards,

Steven Henry

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Question Andrew McCrevan · Jun 5, 2025

How would you go about creating an SQL Stored Procedure that would result in the same output as "IN LIKE"?
For example...
CustomersTable

RecordId CustomerName
123 Mark Stevens
456 Betty Johnson
789 John Stevens
321 Brian Smith
654 John Markson
987 Tom Obrian
selectfromwhere

Would return:

123 Mark Stevens
456 Betty Johnson
789 John Stevens
654 John Markson
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