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Database view with list field

Dominik9
Tera Guru

Hi Experts

 

We have a table (Table A) in which support groups are referenced in a list field. To be able to make proper evaluations we had the idea to create a database view. We want a DB View in which one entry is created for each support group from the list field. An example how we imagined this:

Example table A has 1 record with 4 support groups. The DB View would then have 4 rows as follows:

Record 1; Support Group 1;
Record 1; Support Group 2;
Record 1; Support Group 3;
Record 1; Support Group 4;

Unfortunately in DB Views "CONTAINS" and "LIKE" is not supported in the Where clause. However, I found an article in which this is done in a BR (Solved: Database View - List Field - ServiceNow Community). The problem is that in our case around 250'000 records are first created and would then be filtered by the Business Rule. This obviously has a huge performance impact which we would like to prevent.

Does anyone have an idea how we can solve this? Is the DB View even the right approach?

 

Regards

Dominik

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-O-
Kilo Patron

Yepp, that does it - just did a try. Here's the view:

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2023-01-06-6.pngand the result:

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The only problem I see with this is that the alias might be different in another instance. I mean after moving the Update Sets up the chain, you would have to adjust the view after commit, to match the "local" real DB name.

And yes, if I use the alias "u_products" in the view (vs. the real/DB name "a_str_11") I get the same error as you did.

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You're most welcome and appreciate the like 🙂