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A recent poster on the OTN OLAP Forum asked the question “What are the minimum privileges needed by an Oracle user when viewing BI Beans reports against an analytic workspace?”. This was a question I was thinking about as well, so I decided to do a bit of investigation.
There are three main Oracle roles that [...]

“I am new to Oracle and am preparing to install on a Linux box.  Is Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) commonly used?” asks a recent poster on comp.databases.oracle.server.

There’s an interesting thread on the OTN OLAP Forum at the moment. 

“I am trying to define a cube using the cwm2_olap packages, where not all dimensions have embedded totals.
Dimension A is Time with a hierarchy of Day>Month>Year and I want embedded totals for that. Dimension B only has a very small tree (three levels, 10 lowest level [...]

One of the new Larry Ellison / Oracle books recently published, “Softwar: An Intimate Portrait Of Larry Ellison” has just been featured in Slashdot’s book review section.
Oracle’s always an interesting subject for the Slashdot crowd because;

Oracle are a big supporter of Linux and the standards process
You can download all of the software for development purposes [...]

Mike Lehmann, who works at Oracle on their BPEL and Web Services technology, has started a new blog. Being a RadioUserLand blog, you can also subscribe to the RSS feed here.