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 [...]

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 [...]

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