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  <title>HPCC Data Tutorial</title>

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    <title>HPCC Data Tutorial</title>

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  <chapter>
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <sect1 id="Introduction_Case-Study-and-Tutorial" role="nobrk">
      <title>The ECL Development Process</title>

      <para>This tutorial provides a walk-through of the development process,
      from beginning to end, and is designed to be an introduction to working
      with data on any HPCCSystems HPCC<footnote>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">H</emphasis>igh <emphasis
          role="bold">P</emphasis>erformance <emphasis
          role="bold">C</emphasis>omputing <emphasis
          role="bold">C</emphasis>luster (HPCC) is a massively parallel
          processing computing platform that solves Big Data problems. See
          http://www.hpccsystems.com/Why-HPCC/How-it-works for more
          details.</para>
        </footnote>. We will write code in ECL<footnote>
          <para><emphasis role="bold">E</emphasis>nterprise <emphasis
          role="bold">C</emphasis>ontrol <emphasis
          role="bold">L</emphasis>anguage (ECL) is a declarative, data centric
          programming language used to manage all aspects of the massive data
          joins, sorts, and builds that truly differentiate HPCC (High
          Performance Computing Cluster) from other technologies in its
          ability to provide flexible data analysis on a massive scale.</para>
        </footnote>to process our data and query it.</para>

      <para>This tutorial assumes:</para>

      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>You have a running HPCC. This can be a VM Edition or a single
          or multinode HPCC platform</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

      <para>• You have the ECL IDE<footnote>
          <para>The ECL IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is the tool
          used to create queries into your data and ECL files with which to
          build your queries.</para>
        </footnote> installed and configured</para>

      <para>In this tutorial, we will:</para>

      <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
        <listitem>
          <para>Download a raw data file</para>

          <para>There are links to data file available at <ulink
          url="http://hpccsystems.com/community/docs/data-tutorial-guide">http://hpccsystems.com/community/docs/data-tutorial-guide</ulink></para>

          <para>The download is approximately 30 MB (compressed) and is
          available in either ZIP or .tar.gz format. Choose the appropriate
          link.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Spray the file to a Data Refinery cluster HPCC clusters
          "spray" data into file parts on each node.</para>

          <para>A <emphasis>spray</emphasis> or <emphasis>import</emphasis> is
          the relocation of a data file from one location to an HPCC cluster.
          The term spray was adopted due to the nature of the file movement –
          the file is partitioned across all nodes within a cluster.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Examine the data and determine the pre-processing we need to
          perform</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Pre-process the data to produce a new data file</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Determine the types of queries we want</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Create the queries</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Test the queries</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Deploy them to a Rapid Data Delivery Engine (RDDE) cluster,
          also know as a Roxie cluster.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="Working_with_Data">
    <title>Working with Data</title>

    <sect1 id="The_Original_Data" role="nobrk">
      <title>The Original Data</title>

      <para>In this scenario, we receive a structured data file containing
      records with people's names and addresses. The HPCC also supports
      unstructured data, but this example is simpler. This file is documented
      in the following table:</para>

      <para></para>

      <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
          <tgroup cols="3">
            <colspec colwidth="147.60pt" />

            <colspec colwidth="147.60pt" />

            <colspec colwidth="147.60pt" />

            <thead>
              <row>
                <entry align="left">Field Name</entry>

                <entry align="left">Type</entry>

                <entry align="left">Description</entry>
              </row>
            </thead>

            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry>FirstName</entry>

                <entry>15 Character String</entry>

                <entry>First Name</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>LastName</entry>

                <entry>25 Character String</entry>

                <entry>Last name</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>MiddleName</entry>

                <entry>15 Character String</entry>

                <entry>Middle Name</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>Zip</entry>

                <entry>5 Character String</entry>

                <entry>ZIP Code</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>Street</entry>

                <entry>42 Character String</entry>

                <entry>Street Address</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>City</entry>

                <entry>20 Character String</entry>

                <entry>City</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>State</entry>

                <entry>2 Character String</entry>

                <entry>State</entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable></para>

      <para>This gives us a record length of 124 (the total of all field
      lengths). You will need to know this length for the <emphasis
      role="bold">File Spray</emphasis> process.</para>

      <para></para>

      <sect2 id="Uploading_a_file">
        <title>Load the Incoming Data File to your Landing Zone</title>

        <para>A Landing Zone (or Drop Zone) is a physical storage location
        defined in your HPCC's environment. A daemon (DaFileSrv) must be
        running on that server to enable file sprays and desprays.</para>

        <para>For smaller data files, maximum of 2GB, you can use the
        upload/download file utility in ECL Watch (a Web-based interface to
        your HPCC platform). The sample data file is ~100 mb.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Download the sample data file from the HPCC Systems
            portal.</para>

            <para>The data file is available from links found on <ulink
            url="http://hpccsystems.com/community/docs/data-tutorial-guide">http://hpccsystems.com/community/docs/data-tutorial-guide</ulink>.
            The download is approximately 30 MB (compressed) and is available
            in either ZIP or tar.gz format (<emphasis
            role="bold">OriginalPerson.tar.gz</emphasis> or <emphasis
            role="bold">OriginalPerson.zip</emphasis>)</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Extract it to a folder on your local machine.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>In your browser, go to the <emphasis role="bold">ECL
            Watch</emphasis> URL. For example, http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:8010,
            where nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is your ESP<footnote>
                <para>The ESP (Enterprise Services Platform) Server is the
                communication layer server in you HPCC environment.</para>
              </footnote> Server's IP address.</para>

            <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
                <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

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                  <colspec colwidth="49.50pt" />

                  <colspec />

                  <tbody>
                    <row>
                      <entry><inlinegraphic
                      fileref="images/caution.png" /></entry>

                      <entry>Your IP address could be different from the ones
                      provided in the example images. Please use the IP
                      address provided by <emphasis
                      role="bold">your</emphasis> installation.</entry>
                    </row>
                  </tbody>
                </tgroup>
              </informaltable></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>From ECL Watch page, click on the <emphasis
            role="bold">Upload/download File </emphasis> link in the menu on
            the left side.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Upload/download</title>

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            <para>Once you click on the Upload/download file link, it will
            take you to the Dropzones and Files page, where you can choose to
            <emphasis role="bold">Browse</emphasis> your machine for a file to
            upload:</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Dropzones and Files</title>

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              </figure></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Press the <emphasis role="bold">Browse</emphasis> button to
            browse the files on your local machine, select the file to upload
            and then press the <emphasis role="bold">Open</emphasis>
            button.</para>

            <para>The file you selected should appear in the <emphasis
            role="bold">Select a file to upload:</emphasis> field. The data
            file is named: <emphasis role="bold">OriginalPerson.
            </emphasis></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Press on <emphasis role="bold">Upload Now</emphasis> to
            complete the file upload.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="Spray_the_Data_File_to_your_DR-THOR_Cluster">
        <title>Spray the Data File to your THOR Cluster</title>

        <para>To use the data file in our HPCC cluster, we must first “spray”
        it to a Thor cluster. A <emphasis>spray</emphasis> or
        <emphasis>import</emphasis> is the relocation of a data file from one
        location to a Thor cluster. The term spray was adopted due to the
        nature of the file movement – the file is partitioned across all nodes
        within a cluster.</para>

        <para>In this example, the file is on your Landing Zone and is named
        <emphasis role="bold">OriginalPerson.</emphasis></para>

        <para>We are going to spray it to our Thor cluster and give it a
        logical name of <emphasis role="bold">tutorial::</emphasis><emphasis
        role="bold">YN</emphasis><emphasis
        role="bold">::OriginalPerson</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
        </emphasis>where <emphasis role="bold">YN</emphasis> are your
        initials. The Distrubuted File Utility maintains a list of logical
        files and their corresponding physical file locations.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Open ECL Watch in your browser using the following
            URL:</para>

            <para><emphasis role="bold">http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:pppp
            </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">(where nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is your
            ESP Server’s IP Address and pppp is the port. The default port is
            8010)</emphasis></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Click on the <emphasis role="bold">Spray Fixed</emphasis>
            hyperlink under the DFU Files menu on the left.</para>

            <para>The <emphasis role="bold">DFU Spray Fixed</emphasis> page
            displays.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Using the Source <emphasis
            role="bold">Machine/dropzone</emphasis> drop list, select the
            Landing Zone where the file was placed.</para>

            <para>In the VM or Community Edition, there is only one Landing
            Zone.</para>

            <para>The IP Address is automatically filled and the Local Path is
            partially filled with the default folder on your landing
            zone.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Complete the <emphasis role="bold">Local Path</emphasis> to
            include the complete file name or use the <emphasis
            role="bold">Choose File</emphasis> button to select the file from
            a list of files in the folder. (The file to choose is
            <emphasis>OriginalPerson</emphasis>)</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Fill in the <emphasis role="bold">Record Length</emphasis>
            (124).</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Fill in the <emphasis role="bold">Label</emphasis> using the
            naming convention described earlier: <emphasis
            role="bold">tutorial::</emphasis><emphasis
            role="bold">YN</emphasis><emphasis
            role="bold">::OriginalPerson</emphasis> (remember, <emphasis
            role="bold">YN</emphasis> are your initials).</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Make sure the <emphasis
            role="bold">Replicate</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
            </emphasis>box is checked.</para>

            <para><emphasis role="bold">Note:</emphasis> If replication is
            disabled in your Thor settings, this checkbox does not
            appear.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Dropzones and Files</title>

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          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Press the <emphasis role="bold">Submit<emphasis role="bold">
            </emphasis></emphasis>button.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Click on the <emphasis role="bold">View Progress</emphasis>
            hyperlink</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>View Progress</title>

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                  <imageobject>
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              </figure>The Workunit progress page displays.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Spray Complete</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg03.jpg"
                               vendor="eclwatchSS" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure> Once the spray is complete, we can proceed.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="Begin_Coding">
      <title>Begin Coding</title>

      <para>In this portion of the tutorial, we will write ECL code to define
      the data file and execute simple queries on it so we can evaluate it and
      determine any necessary pre-processing.</para>

      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Start the ECL IDE (Start &gt;&gt; All Programs &gt;&gt; HPCC
          Systems &gt;&gt; ECL IDE )</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Log in to your environment</para>

          <para>For purposes of this tutorial, let’s create a folder called
          <emphasis role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis
          role="bold">YourName</emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis>(where
          <emphasis>YourName</emphasis> is your name).</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

          <para>Rt-Click on the <emphasis role="bold">My Files</emphasis>
          folder in the Repository<emphasis role="bold"></emphasis> window,
          and select <emphasis role="bold">Insert Folder</emphasis> from the
          pop-up menu.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Insert Folder</title>

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            </figure></para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

          <para>Enter <emphasis role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis
          role="bold">YourName</emphasis>(where <emphasis>YourName</emphasis>
          is your name)<emphasis></emphasis>for the label, then press the OK
          button.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Enter Folder Label</title>

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                <imageobject>
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                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure></para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Rt-Click on the <emphasis
          role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis
          role="bold">YourName</emphasis>Folder, and select <emphasis
          role="bold">Insert File</emphasis> from the pop-up menu.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

          <para>Enter <emphasis role="bold">Layout_People</emphasis> for the
          label, then press the OK button.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Insert File</title>

              <mediaobject>
                <imageobject>
                  <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg06.jpg" />
                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure></para>

          <para>A Builder Window opens.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Layout People in Builder</title>

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                <imageobject>
                  <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg07.jpg" />
                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure></para>

          <para>Notice that some text has been written for you in the window.
          This helps you to remember that the name of the file (Layout_People)
          <emphasis>must always exactly match</emphasis> the name of the
          single EXPORT definition (Layout_People) contained in that file.
          This is a requirement -- one EXPORT definition per file, and its
          name must match the filename.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

          <para>Write the following code in the Builder workspace:</para>

          <para><programlisting>EXPORT Layout_People  := RECORD
      STRING15 FirstName;
      STRING25 LastName;
      STRING15 MiddleName;
      STRING5  Zip;
      STRING42 Street;
      STRING20 City;
      STRING2  State;
END;    </programlisting> <figure>
              <title>Code in Builder Window</title>

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            </figure></para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Press the syntax check button on the main toolbar (or press
          F7).</para>

          <para>It is always a good idea to check syntax before
          submitting.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Check Syntax</title>

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                <imageobject>
                  <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg23.jpg" />
                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure></para>

          <para>This file defines the record structure for the data file.
          Next, we will examine the data.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>

      <sect2 id="Examine_the_Data" role="brk">
        <title>Examine the Data</title>

        <para>In this section, we will look at the data and determine if there
        is any pre-processing we want to perform on the data. This is the step
        in the development process where we convert the raw data into a form
        we can use.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Rt-Click on the <emphasis
            role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">YourName
            </emphasis>Folder, and select <emphasis role="bold">Insert
            File</emphasis> from the pop-up menu.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Enter <emphasis role="bold">File_OriginalPerson</emphasis>
            for the label, then press the OK button.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Insert File</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg09.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure>A Builder Window opens.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Write the following code (remember to replace
            <emphasis>YN</emphasis>with your initials):</para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
EXPORT File_OriginalPerson :=
DATASET('~tutorial::YN::OriginalPerson',TutorialYourName.Layout_People,THOR);
</programlisting></para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>File_OriginalPerson.ecl</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg10.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Press the syntax check button on the main toolbar (or press
            F7) to check the syntax.</para>

            <para>This defines the Dataset. Next, we will examine the
            data.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Open a new Builder Window (CTRL+N) and write the following
            code (remember to replace <emphasis>YourName </emphasis>with your
            name):</para>

            <programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
COUNT(TutorialYourName.File_OriginalPerson);
</programlisting>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Press the syntax check button on the main toolbar (or press
            F7) to check the syntax.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Make sure the selected cluster is your Thor cluster, then
            press the <emphasis role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button. Note
            that your target cluster might have a different name.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Target Thor</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg11.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>When the Workunit completes, it displays a green checkmark
            <inlinegraphic fileref="images/DT173-15.jpg" />.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Select the Workunit tab (the one with the number next to the
            checkmark) and select the <emphasis role="bold">Result
            1</emphasis> tab (it may already be selected).</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Result tab</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DT173-16.png" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure>This shows us that there are 841,400 records in the
            data file.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Select the Builder tab and change COUNT to OUTPUT, as shown
            below:</para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
<emphasis role="bold">OUTPUT</emphasis>(TutorialYourName.File_OriginalPerson);</programlisting></para>

            <para>Note: The modified portion is shown in <emphasis
            role="bold">bold</emphasis>.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Check the syntax, if no errors, press the <emphasis
            role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>When it completes, select the Workunit tab, then select the
            <emphasis role="bold">Result 1</emphasis> tab.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Output Results</title>

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                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DT173-17.png" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>

            <para>Notice the names are in mixed case.</para>

            <para>For our purposes, it will be easier to have all the names in
            all uppercase. This demonstrates one of the steps in the basic
            process of preparing data (Extract, Transform, and Load—ETL) using
            ECL.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Close the Builder Window.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="Process_the_Data">
        <title>Process the Data</title>

        <para>In this section, we will write code to convert the original data
        so that all names are in uppercase. We will then write this new file
        to our Thor cluster.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Rt-Click on the <emphasis
            role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">YourName
            </emphasis>Folder, and select Insert File from the pop-up
            menu.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Name this one <emphasis
            role="bold">BWR_ProcessRawData</emphasis> and write the following
            code (changing YN and YourName as before):</para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName, Std;
    TutorialYourName.Layout_People toUpperPlease(TutorialYourName.Layout_People pInput)
      := TRANSFORM
     SELF.FirstName := Std.Str.ToUpperCase(pInput.FirstName);
     SELF.LastName := Std.Str.ToUpperCase(pInput.LastName);
     SELF.MiddleName := Std.Str.ToUpperCase(pInput.MiddleName);
     SELF.Zip := pInput.Zip;
     SELF.Street := pInput.Street;
     SELF.City := pInput.City;
     SELF.State := pInput.State;
    END ;

OrigDataset := TutorialYourName.File_OriginalPerson;
UpperedDataset := PROJECT(OrigDataset,toUpperPlease(LEFT));
OUTPUT(UpperedDataset,,'~tutorial::YN::TutorialPerson',OVERWRITE);
</programlisting></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Check the syntax, if no errors press the <emphasis
            role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>When it completes, select the Workunit tab, then select the
            Result 1 tab.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Process Result</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DT173-18.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>

            <para>The results show that the process has successfully converted
            the name fields to uppercase.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>After you examine the results, close the Builder
            window.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="Using_our_Data">
        <title>Using our New Data</title>

        <para></para>

        <para>Now that we have our data in a useful format and the file is in
        place, we can write more code to use the new data file. We will
        determine the indexes we will need and create them. For this tutorial,
        let’s assume the field we need to index is the Zip code field.</para>

        <para></para>

        <para>In the DATASET definition, we will add a virtual field to the
        RECORD structure for the fileposition. This is required for
        indexes.</para>

        <para></para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Insert a File into the <emphasis
            role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis
            role="bold">YourName</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
            </emphasis>Folder. Name it <emphasis role="bold">
            File_TutorialPerson </emphasis>and write this code (changing
            <emphasis>YN </emphasis>to your initials):</para>

            <para></para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
EXPORT File_TutorialPerson :=
DATASET('~tutorial::YN::TutorialPerson',
       {TutorialYourName.Layout_People,
        UNSIGNED8 fpos {virtual(fileposition)}},THOR);
</programlisting></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Check the syntax, if no errors press the <emphasis
            role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>When it completes, it displays a green checkmark
            <inlinegraphic fileref="images/DT173-15.jpg" />.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="Index_the_Data">
        <title>Index the Data</title>

        <para>Next, we will define the INDEX.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Insert a File into your Tutorial Folder. Name it <emphasis
            role="bold">IDX_PeopleByZip</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
            </emphasis>and write this code (changing <emphasis>YN</emphasis>
            and <emphasis>YourName</emphasis> as before):</para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
EXPORT IDX_PeopleByZIP :=
INDEX(TutorialYourName.File_TutorialPerson,{zip,fpos},'~tutorial::YN::PeopleByZipINDEX');
</programlisting></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Check the syntax.</para>

            <para>Next, we will build the index file.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Insert a File into the <emphasis
            role="bold">Tutorial</emphasis><emphasis
            role="bold">YourName</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
            </emphasis>Folder and name it <emphasis
            role="bold">BWR_BuildPeopleByZip </emphasis>and write this code
            (replacing <emphasis>YourName</emphasis> with your name):</para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
BUILDINDEX(TutorialYourName.IDX_PeopleByZIP,OVERWRITE);
</programlisting></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Check the syntax and if there are no errors, press the
            <emphasis role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Wait for the Workunit to complete, then close the Builder
            Window.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="Query_the_Data">
        <title>Build a Query</title>

        <para>Now that we have an index file, we will write a query that uses
        it.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Insert a File into your Tutorial Folder. Name it <emphasis
            role="bold">BWR_FetchPeopleByZip </emphasis>and write this code
            (changing <emphasis>YourName</emphasis> as before):</para>

            <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
ZipFilter :='33024';
FetchPeopleByZip :=
FETCH(TutorialYourName.File_TutorialPerson,
      TutorialYourName.IDX_PeopleByZIP(zip=ZipFilter),
      RIGHT.fpos);
OUTPUT(FetchPeopleByZip);
</programlisting></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Check the syntax and if there are no errors, press the
            <emphasis role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>When it completes, select the Workunit<emphasis role="bold">
            </emphasis>tab, then select the <emphasis
            role="bold">Result</emphasis> tab.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Examine the result, then close the Builder window.</para>

            <para><emphasis role="bold">Note</emphasis>: You can change the
            value of the <emphasis role="bold">ZipValue</emphasis> field to
            get results from different Zip codes.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="Publishing_your_Query">
      <title>Publishing your Query</title>

      <para>Now that we have created an indexed query, the next step is to
      enable access to it through a Web interface.</para>

      <para>Our STORED variables provide a means to pass values as query
      parameters. In this example, the user can supply the ZIP code so the
      results are people from that ZIP code.</para>

      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Insert a File into the <emphasis role="bold">TutorialYourName
          </emphasis>Folder and name it <emphasis
          role="bold">FetchPeopleByZipService</emphasis></para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Write this code (changing <emphasis>YourName</emphasis> as
          before):</para>

          <para><programlisting>IMPORT TutorialYourName;
STRING10 ZipFilter := '' :STORED('ZIPValue');
resultSet :=
            FETCH(TutorialYourName.File_TutorialPerson,
            TutorialYourName.IDX_PeopleByZIP(zip=ZipFilter),
            RIGHT.fpos);
OUTPUT(resultset);
</programlisting></para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Check the syntax, and save the file.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Press the <emphasis role="bold">Submit</emphasis><emphasis
          role="bold"> </emphasis>button.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>When the workunit completes, select the Workunit<emphasis
          role="bold"> </emphasis>tab, then select the ECL Watch tab.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

          <para>Press the <emphasis role="bold">Publish</emphasis> button, you
          may need to scroll down the main window.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Publish Workunit</title>

              <mediaobject>
                <imageobject>
                  <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg12.jpg" />
                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure></para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>When the workunit is published, a notice dialog
          displays.</para>

          <para><figure>
              <title>Workunit Published</title>

              <mediaobject>
                <imageobject>
                  <imagedata fileref="images/DT173-18b.png" />
                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure></para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>

      <sect2 id="Execute-using-the-Data-Delivery-Engine">
        <title>Execute using WsECL</title>

        <para>Now that the query is published, we can run it using the WsECL
        Web service. WsECL provides a Web-based interface to your published
        query. It also automatically creates an entry form to execute the
        query.</para>

        <para>Using the following URL:</para>

        <para><emphasis role="bold">http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:pppp (where
        nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is your ESP Server’s IP address and pppp is the port.
        Default port is 8002)</emphasis></para>

        <para></para>

        <para><figure>
            <title>WsECL</title>

            <mediaobject>
              <imageobject>
                <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg13.jpg" />
              </imageobject>
            </mediaobject>
          </figure></para>

        <para></para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Click on the + sign next to <emphasis
            role="bold">thor</emphasis> to expand the tree.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Click on the <emphasis
            role="bold">fetchpeoplebyzipservice.1</emphasis> hyperlink.</para>

            <para>The form for the service displays.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Service Form</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg14a.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Provide a zip code (e.g., 33024) in the <emphasis
            role="bold">zipvalue</emphasis> field, , select <emphasis
            role="bold">Output Tables</emphasis> from the drop list, then
            press the <emphasis role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button.</para>

            <para>The results display.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Results</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg15a.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="Deploy_the_Roxie_Query">
      <title>Compile and Publish the Roxie Query</title>

      <para>The final step in this process is to publish the indexed query to
      a Rapid Data Delivery Engine (Roxie) Cluster.</para>

      <para>We will recompile the code with Roxie as the target cluster, then
      publish it to a Roxie cluster. <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>In the ECL IDE, select the Builder tab on the
            FetchPeopleByZipService file builder window,</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Using the <emphasis role="bold">Target</emphasis> drop list,
            select Roxie as the Target cluster.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Target Roxie</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg16.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>In the Builder window, in the upper left corner the
            <emphasis role="bold">Submit</emphasis> button has a drop down
            arrow next to it. Select the arrow to expose the <emphasis
            role="bold">Compile</emphasis> option.</para>

            <figure>
              <title>Compile</title>

              <mediaobject>
                <imageobject>
                  <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg17.jpg" />
                </imageobject>
              </mediaobject>
            </figure>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Select <emphasis role="bold">Compile</emphasis></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>When the workunit finishes, it will display a green circle
            indicating it has compiled.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Compiled</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg18.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist></para>

      <sect2 id="Deploy_the_Query_to_Roxie">
        <title>Publish the Roxie query</title>

        <para>Next we will publish the query to a Roxie Cluster.</para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Select the workunit tab for the FetchPeopleByZipService that
            you just compiled.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Select the ECL Watch tab.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Press the <emphasis role="bold">Publish</emphasis> button
            (you may need to scroll down the main window)</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Publish Query</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg19.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure>When it successfully publishes, you will see:</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>Workunit Published</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DT173-18b.png" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="Run_the_Roxie_Query" role="brk">
        <title>Run the Roxie Query in WsECL</title>

        <para>Now that the query is deployed to a Roxie cluster, we can run it
        using the WS-ECL service Using the following URL:</para>

        <para><emphasis role="bold">http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:pppp (where
        nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is your ESP Server’s IP address and pppp is the port.
        The default port is 8002)</emphasis></para>

        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Click on the + sign next to <emphasis
            role="bold">myroxie</emphasis> to expand the tree.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Click on the <emphasis
            role="bold">fetchpeoplebyzipservice.1</emphasis> hyperlink.</para>

            <para>The form for the service displays.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>RoxieECL</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg21.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>

            <para>Provide a zip code (e.g., 33024), select <emphasis
            role="bold">Output Tables</emphasis> from the drop list, and press
            the Submit button.</para>

            <para>The results display.</para>

            <para><figure>
                <title>RoxieResults</title>

                <mediaobject>
                  <imageobject>
                    <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg22.jpg" />
                  </imageobject>
                </mediaobject>
              </figure></para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="Summary">
    <title>Summary</title>

    <para>Now that you have successfully processed raw data, sprayed it onto a
    cluster, and deployed it to a RDDE cluster, what’s next?</para>

    <!-- -->

    <para>Here is a short list of suggestions on the path you might take from
    here:</para>

    <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
      <listitem>
        <para>Create indexes on other fields and create queries using
        them.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
      <listitem>
        <para>Write client applications to access your queries using JSON or
        SOAP interfaces.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
      <listitem>
        <para>Looks at the resources available on the Links tab</para>

        <para><figure>
            <title>Links</title>

            <mediaobject>
              <imageobject>
                <imagedata fileref="images/DTimg24.jpg" />
              </imageobject>
            </mediaobject>
          </figure>The Links tab provides easy access to a form, a Sample
        Request, a Sample Response, the WSDL, the XML Schema (XSD) and
        more...</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <itemizedlist mark="bullet">
      <listitem>
        <para>Follow the procedures in this tutorial using your own
        data!</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </chapter>
</book>