Some Thoughts on Dimensional Modeling

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 by Jon Mead

If you’re wondering who the “Mead” in Rittman Mead Consulting is, now’s probably a good time to introduce myself. I’m Jon Mead, I’ve worked with Mark for a number of years on projects around the UK, and together we started up Rittman Mead Consulting earlier this year to try and help Oracle customers around [...]

Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.2.1 is out

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Just noticed on OTN that a new version of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is out. The full version number is 10.1.3.2.1 (one step from the previous Maui release 10.1.3.2). My guess is that this is just a platform availability release with no new features, but perhaps some bug fixes. The integration with BI [...]

Ubuntu 7.04

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

The new Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) is out. I used the built-in upgrade facilities to get the new release. After 2-3 failed attempts to get the full upgrade started, I finally got the pleasure of watching the download progress bar telling me that I had some 3 hours to wait. After downloading all the new [...]

Finally!

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Seems that the Oracle Forums have finally come to their senses and allowed changing the watch/notification email address. Hurray for them! I have had the same email addy stuck in there since I signed up back in 2000. I haven’t had access to the mailbox in 4 years by now.
So, now I can at least [...]

Multiple repositories in the same OBIEE server instance?

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

This is a strange one. The service INI file (nqsconfig.ini) for the OBIEE does suggest that the server can handle more than one repository at a time. In fact, if you do add another repository to the configuration file, that file must be a valid repository as well. Otherwise the server won’t start.
There is a [...]

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