National Weather Service Professional Development Series Professional Competency Unit

Description of Job Duty Competency to be Achieved

Know how to utilize tools available for creating, reading, and writing AWIPS data sets.

Description of Need

Developers need to have the ability to read and/or write into the various AWIPS data sets. This ensures that operational and historical data are easily accessible to the local application without negatively impacting the baseline AWIPS operations.

Specific Job Task Skills and Knowledge

1. Know the location of AWIPS datasets and thier structure.

2. Understand Informix RDBMS priciples

3. Use Informix database tools to query and manage data

4. Use AWIPS utitity programs to read and manipulate datasets

Instructional Components

Instructional Component 2.1: Data directory structure and data types: Residence course - AWIPS Applications Development

Instructional Component 2.2: RDBMS -Informix Database structure: WBT - Informix Overview - RDBMS

Instructional Component 2.3: Use of dbAccess to access database information: WBT - Informix Overview - Database Admin.

Instructional Component 2.4: Use of SQL (Structured Query Language)to access AWIPS data: WBT - Informix Overview - Simple SQL and Informix Overview - Complex SQL

Instructional Component 2.5: Use NetCDF tools to read and manipulate AWIPS data sets: Residence course - AWIPS Applications Development

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