Reference for Announcements

This guide lists the predefined objects in OCI Resource Analytics for the Announcements service. You can find information about views, entity relationships, subject areas, and sample queries.

Views

This section provides information about views within OCI Resource Analytics Announcements Service and their columns, data types, keys, and the referenced view and column names. The following views are available:

Announcements Service Views
NameDescription
ANNOUNCEMENTS_SERVICE_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_DIM_VThis view stores information about a subscription with the Announcements service to receive selected announcements in the format and delivery mechanisms.
ANNOUNCEMENTS_SERVICE_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FACT_VFact table for Announcements service subscriptions.

The suffixes in the view names designate the view type:

  • FACT_V: Fact
  • DIM_V: Dimension

The contents of each view and their relationships are listed in the following file: Announcements views.

Each tab in the Excel spreadsheet contains the details of a view.

Relationship Diagram

This section provides diagrams that define the logical relationship of a fact table with different dimension tables.

This diagram shows the relationship of the fact view with different dimension views.

ANNOUNCEMENTS_SERVICE_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FACT_V
Relationship diagram showing the fact table, ANNOUNCEMENTS_SERVICE_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FACT_V.

Sample Queries

Sample queries for Announcements Service.

List the number of announcement subscriptions associated with each topic ID.
SELECT
    ONS_TOPIC_ID,
    COUNT(ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_ID) AS ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_COUNT
FROM OCIRA.ANNOUNCEMENTS_SERVICE_ANNOUNCEMENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FACT_V F
GROUP BY ONS_TOPIC_ID;

Data Lineage

The Customer Experience Semantic Model Lineage spreadsheet and Metric Calculation Logic spreadsheet for Announcements provide an end-to-end data lineage summary report for physical and logical relationships in your data.

For more information, see Data Lineage.

Subject Areas

This section provides information on the subject areas with data you maintain in Announcements. These subject areas, with their corresponding data, are available for you to use when creating and editing analyses and reports. The information for each subject area includes:

  • Description of the subject area.

  • Business questions that can be answered by data in the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each business question.

  • Job-specific groups and duty roles that can be used to secure access to the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each job role and duty role.

  • Primary navigation to the work area that's represented by the subject area.

  • Time reporting considerations in using the subject area, such as whether the subject area reports historical data or only the current data. Historical reporting refers to reporting on historical transactional data in a subject area. With a few exceptions, all dimensional data are current as of the primary transaction dates or system date.

  • The lowest grain of transactional data in a subject area. The lowest transactional data grain decides how data are joined in a report.

  • Special considerations, tips, and things to look out for in using the subject area to create analyses and reports.

The subject area is: