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These videos were created by Allan Wrobel (Consulting Software Engineer). Allan has been working in the IT industry his entire adult life and has been an employee with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group since 2010.

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Use ECL Macros Session 1- A worked through case
A explanation of ECL (Enterprise Control Language) MACROS using a real life case study. Compare attributes between two key build where the number of attributes is so large that using MACROS is the only solution.

Use ECL Macros Session 2- A worked through case
Constructing a new output layer.

Use ECL Macros Session 3- A worked through case
Generating an email using ECL to act on the information discovered in the previous session
Use ECL Built in Functions: PROJECT
Use ECL Built in Functions: TABLE (Vertical Slice)
Use ECL Built in Functions: TABLE (CrossTab)
Use ECL Built in Functions: ITERATE
Use ECL Built in Functions: PROCESS (Part 1)
Use ECL Built in Functions: PROCESS (Part 2)
Use ECL Built in Functions: GRAPH
Use ECL Built in Functions: NORMALIZE (COUNT Variant)
Use ECL Built in Functions: NORMALIZE (Child Dataset Extraction)
Use ECL Built in Functions: NORMALIZE (Additional Information)
Use ECL Built in Functions: DENORMALIZE (Single Record Presentation Variant)
Use ECL Built in Functions: DENORMALIZE (GROUP Presentation Variant)
Use ECL Built in Functions: ECL DICTIONARY (Examples of use)
Use ECL Built in Functions: Working with distributed data (TABLE, ROLLUP and AGGREGATE)
Use ECL Built in Functions: ROLLUP (Part 1)
Use ECL Built in Functions: ROLLUP (Part 2)
Use ECL Built in Functions: ECL #EXPORT and #EXPORTXML
Use ECL Built in Functions: DEDUP
Understand the differences Between Build and definition files in HPCC Systems 
Use Aggregates on sub sets of data in a cross tab report
Learn about ECL Gotchas: Explicit return types from functions
Use ECL PROJECT different from other built Ins
Be clear about the context in which the ECL FUNCTIONMACROs run
Be wary of using the Compiler hint DISTRIBUTED in ECL 
Find a Better way to optimise out file re-distributions using DISTRIBUTED
Resolve common ECL errors with unhelpful compiler messages
Understand the Distribution of data on HPCC Systems, with an example
Use ECL/HPCC Systems Events, Including Scheduling Events
Understand the idiosyncrasies of ECL MACROs and #EXPAND