Friday, January 30th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
The other week I posted an article on optimizing the Oracle B Applications ETL process, and one useful set of diagnostic data I highlighted at the time was the ETL step timings that are available in the DAC Console. For every running or completed execution plan in the DAC Repository, you can list out the [...]
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 by Mark Rittman
A question I’ve been asked fairly regularly over the past few weeks is how you can version control the metadata used by an OBIEE project. As you’re probably aware, there is no real version control built in to OBIEE (you can check-in, and check-out, repository objects in the BI Server repository when it’s running online, [...]
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
This week I’m working with one of our customers who are in the first phase of implementing the Oracle BI Applications. We’re still in the proof of concept phase, and something we’ll need to get sorted out before embarking on the project proper is the time that the ETL process takes to run. At the [...]
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Today is New Year’s Eve, and a kind of review of the year, here’s ten of my thoughts on what happened in Oracle B&DW in 2008.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. 2008 was the year that OBIEE went from early-adopter technology (at least for general Oracle customers) to a mainstream BI tool. A good proportion [...]
Friday, December 19th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Dain Hansen reports that the new 10.1.3.5 version of Oracle Data Integrator is now available for download, with an updated data sheet and new features document also now available. So what’s special about this release?
Well from a BI perspective, it’s the first version certified for use with the Oracle BI Applications, meaning that in time [...]
