This lesson should take about 40 minutes to complete. After completing
this lesson, you should be able to identify at least five methods you
can use to determine whether your query results are correct.
Lesson 5. Evaluating Query Results
Activity 1
Read the document "Verifying Query
Results" and then complete Activity 2. (After completing the reading,
use your browser's back to return to this lesson.)
Activity 2
After reading "Verifying Query Results," please answer the following questions:
- To help you evaluate query results, what can you ask the person who
requested the report?
- What is the advantage of developing a query that involves only one
to two record selection conditions?
- What are other reliable sources of information in which you can compare
the accuracy of your query results?
- Name an activity you can participate in to continue to become familiar
and knowlegeable about Univeristy data.
- What is meant by the term "perform sanity checking?"
Activity 2 Answers
- Ask the person requesting the report what results they expect to get.
Or ask if the person can suggest another existing report that you can
use to check to see if your results are at least in the ballpark.
- You can look at how the results change as you add each condition thereby
insuring that you are only getting the data that you want.
- Other sources of information in which you can compare your query results
include such items as BEN Financials or other source system screens
or reports.
- You can continue to become familiar with and knowledgeable about University
data by participating in the data collection listservs.
- The term means to check your query results by simply asking yourself
if the information you have obtained is a reasonable answer.
Additional Lessons
Lesson 1. Security, Etiquette, and Ethics
Lesson 2. Salary Management Data Diagrams
Lesson 3. Table and Data Element Documentation
Lesson 4. Questions to Ask Before Writing a Salary
Management Query
Lesson 6. Getting Salary Management Help
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