BIPublisher and mySQL

Monday, January 21st, 2008 by Borkur Steingrimsson

The other day I was asked to look in to how we can use BIPublisher to report against a mySQL database. According to the documentation one can report against basically any database that can be connected to via JDBC. Obviously I am assuming you already have your mySQL database up and running :). But to […]

Still here and going to New Orleans

Friday, January 18th, 2008 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Just a quick post to tell people I am still alive. Haven’t been blogging for close to two months now so I thought I’d better show a small sign of life.
I spent New Year’s eve up in Iceland, visiting friends and family. As soon as the smoke from all the fireworks cleared I took on […]

The UKOUG 2007 is starting

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Well, it was about time that I woke up from my non-blogging slumber! I have been keeping my attention on customer work and easily managed to put off blogging for quite some time now. I dare say I should try to keep the pace a bit better here and I sure will try to do […]

Virtual columns, Virtual Teams and Absolute news

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

I just saw a very concise post on the AMIS technology blog about virtual columns being created on tables. Given how well it is put forward there, I don’t see the need to regurgitate their post, so take a quick peek and learn how cool and easy this feature is. I have a few times […]

A week in the desert

Friday, September 28th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Well, I have been out here in Qatar for a week now. The work has been quite interesting and the days have been rather busy. Jon and I haven’t really had any time to take in any sights, until last night when we went to an outdoor market. It was very nice and relaxed, loads […]

Off to Qatar and some ranting

Friday, September 21st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

So, I just settled in to my first-ever trip to Qatar. I took an SN-Brussels flight earlier this evening out to Manchester and now I am sitting in the Qatar Airways A320-300 getting ready to take off. Qatar Airways has a fantastic reputation so I must say I am quite excited to experience their in-flight […]

Managing multiple Presentation Services on the same Unix box

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

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 […]

Summer is over

Sunday, September 9th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

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 […]

UKOUG 2007 abstract just got accepted

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Last Friday I got an email from the UKOUG Events Team informing me that my abstract, titled
“Implementing Access Control for the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition”
has just been accepted for the UKOUG 2007 conference in Birmingham, come December. I got a slot on the Wednesday, Dec 5th, right after lunch. This will be […]

It rains down in Africa

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

As Mark Rittman announced last week, I have just started collaborating with Rittman Mead Consulting. As a direct result I am now sitting in my hotel room in Lagos, Nigeria after the second day of running the Oracle BI EE Masterclass for a client. This is the first time that I run this course but […]