Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 […]

The other day I was doing some OWB work for a client. I had done some 60 mappings of the most basic kind, when I noticed that the mapping I had used as the basis (I use copy/paste a lot when working with OWB) had the ‘Maximum number of errors’ runtime parameter set to the […]

This one doesn’t quite relate to BI, but here is a function I hadn’t seen before: new_time . This function accepts three arguments: A date, the timezone this date should be considered in, and the timezone you want the return value to be in. This can come in handy in some situations, but there […]

I must admit that as the last few weeks passed by, I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to other things than the Oracle BI EE suite. My current customer is in the process of adopting the OBIEE suite and all effort has gone in to getting up to speed with it and learning […]

It has been a little while since I posted anything. I have been a little busy at work as well as sitting through a 5 days training course on the Oracle BI EE suite. I must admit that the course was way too long and spread a wee thin for my taste but I did […]

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 […]

The UKOUG is having a conference in December and the call for papers for the 2007 calendar has been open for a while now. I just finished submitting an abstract through their website. This is the first submission I make to such a big conference so I don’t have too high expectations. My idea is […]

Ok, so I tried running the OBIEE installer again, this time choosing only BI Server option. When I read through the install.log I noticed that it was complaining about that the UnixChk.sh didn’t exist. The reason for that was simple, I had renamed it when I was writing the previous post. I renamed the file […]

Well, this was a productive 2 hour stint. I just managed to hack my way past the OBIEE installer to get ahead to the actual installation. After downloading the cpio (I chose the RedHat file, since I knew that I could at least install the Oracle Linux because I have the disks laying around somewhere. […]

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