Sunday, October 28th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Apart from running seminars and posting technical articles on the blog, Jon and I (and now Peter Scott) actually do a lot of training and consulting for clients in the UK, Europe and North America. Just for today and for one day later this week, I’m going to take the liberty of running a short […]
Sunday, October 28th, 2007 by Peter Scott
Doug Burns writes, amongst other things, about a straw poll at a user group meeting on the number up to date on Oracle CPU patching. One of Doug’s earlier questions was about the numbers that had all of their Oracle databases on 9.2.0.8 or 10.2. It would seem that two-thirds or so did not.
So what […]
Saturday, October 27th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
So I was reading through Dylan’s blog the other day and noticed an article he’d written about Oracle BI Administrator scripting. The article looked particularly interesting as a couple of people had recently asked me whether it was possible to script the creation of objects in the Oracle BI Server repository, and this looked like […]
Friday, October 26th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
One of the interesting new features that came with OBIEE 10.1.3.2 was the Aggregate Persistence Wizard. This utility automates the creation and initial population of aggregates, persists them in a back-end database and configures the BI Server metadata layer so that they’re used when appropriate. What’s particularly interesting about this feature is that you can […]
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 by Peter Scott
In addition to moving my responsibilities to other managers, I have been tying up the odd technical loose end.
During the recent upgrade to 10gR2 for one of our DW customers we noticed a frequent query that queried for raw sales for a named customer over a rolling 12 week period. The problem here was that […]
