Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 by Mark Rittman
It’s just after 3.30 in the afternoon in Lyon, and I’m just about to finish up at the Hyperion conference. I’ve deliberately held back from posting to the blog until today, as I wanted to take things in for a while as it’s all just so different from an Oracle conference. The format and so [...]
Monday, May 21st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
Someone on OTN asked me to elaborate on a comment I made on a post that Mark Rittman wrote last week. What I need to achieve here is to use an existing LDAP server to validate the credentials of the use who is logging on to the OBIEE. To set this up we first [...]
Sunday, May 20th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
It’s Sunday lunchtime and I’m currently on the train going up to London, to catch a flight to the Hyperion conference in Lyon. I’m going over as an official representative of the UKOUG, and the conference will give me a good chance to see where Hyperion’s products are going to fit in with the Oracle [...]
Friday, May 18th, 2007 by Peter Scott
I see that the UK user group has extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the 1st of June.
I may have mentioned here before, but the conference is one of the better ones to attend (and many of my American friends are frankly envious of the breadth and quality of the meeting that UKOUG puts [...]
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 by Peter Scott
I have a medium sized data warehouse, about 4 terabytes, and have noticed that performance is not always consistent. This surprises me as it running on decent hardware (12 CPU SUN SPARC, 24GB RAM, and industrial strength SAN storage) and the system stats from our monitoring guys show “$%@! all” resource usage most of the [...]
