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Several months ago I wrote a blog post on pulling together an Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition business model from a normalized data source. At the time I was working through in my own mind how best to join different data sources together, how to make use of logical and physical joins, how logical table […]

It’s just before 6am on Sunday morning, and I’m sitting in the departures lounge at Auckland Airport waiting for my final flight through to Melbourne. My journey started off on Friday morning with a train trip up to London, then across to Heathrow for my initial flight to Los Angeles. After a two-hour stopover, it […]

A few weeks ago I was chatting to someone about ‘health checks’ for data warehouses and the sort of reason that data warehouse owners might have for commissioning them. We came up with three fundamental reasons:

doubts about the current system
fitness for future enhancement
an as check on the developers currently building a data warehouse.

In my […]

As I had mentioned, I wanted to write up a bit on how to go about setting up multiple Oracle BI presentation services, each configured to access a different repository file (RPD) running on the BI Server. The thing is that you can easily set up the BI server so that it manages more […]

A quick advert for some forthcoming Enterprise BI Seminars in Sweden, Hungary, Ireland and The Netherlands.
These events are being organized through Oracle University, and consist of eight sessions by myself on all that’s new in the world of Oracle BI & Data Warehousing. The focus is on deploying BI enterprise-wide using the new Oracle BI […]

But first. It’s good to see that two bloggers in the Washington DC area are back on-line. Welcome back Tom and Sponge
A few posts ago I mentioned my final 9 to 10g upgrade (unless someone else wants me to do a 9 to 10 upgrade project). The mechanics of the upgrade are done, I […]

“Are Relational Databases Obsolete?” asks Slashdot, pointing to this article by Michael Stonebraker in Computerworld.
Oh no I think, here we go again, another article from the Linux and Java fanboy crowd that’s saying that databases are legacy technologies that merely provide storage for an application’s objects. Or actually - it’s not, and the Slashdot headline […]

The other day I wrote about the first of the integration features between Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition in my article “Integrating Oracle Answers and Oracle Portal”. Today, I’m going to take a look at integrating Oracle Discoverer and Oracle BI Publisher, where BI Publisher can use a Discoverer worksheet as a […]

Well, not that summer actually ever arrived here in Belgium. It’s been quite the opposite of last summer, which was very hot and sunny. So I guess in average my two first summers here were OK., right?
But the summer did bring me some changes. For the last 5 weeks I have been working as an […]

One bit of feedback I received after running my last BI seminar, was that people were interested in interoperability between the new BIEE tools and the Standard Edition tools they were currently using. Whilst most people were keen to hear about what’s new, the reality is that they need to take gradual steps and a […]