Who can benefit from using SQL Queries in SAP Business One?
It may not be easy to deduce the ideal reader of this book. In fact, there are many different groups of SAP Business One users who may need this tool.
To my knowledge, there is no standard organization chart for Small and Midsized enterprises. Most of them are different. You may often find one person that handles more than one role. In this sense all users, especially end users, may need this book as long as they can use SQL query with the basic knowledge required.
You may check the following list to see if anything applies to you:
- Do you need to check specific sales results over certain time periods, for certain areas or certain customers?
- Do you want to know who the top vendors from certain locations for certain materials are?
- Do you have dynamic updated version of your sales force performance in real time?
- Do you often check if approval procedures are exactly matching your expectations?
- Have you tried to start building your SQL query but could not get it done properly?
- Have you experienced writing SQL query but the results are not always correct or up to your expectations?
If the answer to any of the questions mentioned earlier is "yes", then you can certainly benefit from reading this book. It will answer each and every question mentioned earlier and give you the power to solve complicated problems.
Consultant
If you are an SAP Business One consultant, you have probably mastered SQL query already. However, if that is not the case, this book would be a great help to extend your consulting power. It will probably become a mandatory skill in the future that any SAP Business One consultant should be able to use SQL query.
Developer
If you are an SAP Business One add-on developer, these skills will be good additions to your capabilities. You may find this book useful even in some other development work like coding or programming. Very often you need to embed SQL query to your codes to complete your Software Development Kit (SDK) project.
SAP Business One end user
If you are simply a normal SAP Business One end user, you may need this book more. This is because SQL query usage is best applied for the companies who have SAP Business One live data. Only you as the end users know better than anyone else what you are looking for to make Business Intelligence a daily routine job. It is very important for you to have an ability to create a query report so that you can map your requirement by query in a timely manner.
Non-SAP Business One users
To the other readers who are not SAP Business One users, you could still get some hints and tips from this book because the working and the problematic queries are both shown. Even without an SAP Business One user interface, you may still gain some useful concepts. In one query example of this book, I will show you that even without the actual data from my database to test the query due to localization limitation, the correct answer to the questioner can still be deduced.
No matter what your background is, you will find this book useful whenever you need to get certain data quickly and accurately.