Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Just a quick post today to demonstrate an issue I ran into with an Oracle OLAP 11gR2 dimension today. I was maintaining the dimension when I encountered the following error: I found Oracle support document 1258925.1, which has a handle on the problem. It describes a deficiency OLAP has with indexing attributes that contain newline characters. [...]

I apologize for the long delay in getting this last portion of the Real-time discussion in place. Since I wrote the first two installments, we’ve had the BI Forum (US and UK versions), plus a flurry of activity around Rittman Mead in the US, followed up by KScope11. But a promise is a promise, and [...]

This is just a quick note to announce that we have scheduled another OBIEE 11g Bootcamp course in Atlanta in early August. We’ve been working on the OBIEE 11g material since we received the first beta release, and we’ve run successive versions of this material through two rounds of international Training Days events last year [...]

I’m still not used to saying “Kscope”… it sounds like a medical screening that I know I should get when I turn 40. Regardless, I’m looking forward to the event for all the usual reasons: seeing good friends, seeing all the great speakers in the Oracle community, and generally celebrating what it is we all [...]

The typical approach in Federated OLTP/EDW reporting environments is to use a BI tool such as OBIEE to do horizontal federation. This means combining data from multiple sources at the same grain in a single logical table. One note of clarification: my use of the word “federated” might be a misnomer, and I apologize in [...]