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Yesterday, we saw how to go about patching repositories so that the entire process of migration from development to production can be automated. That patching process was basically an extension of the 3 way merge process. In 10g, 3 way merging was supported in Web Catalogs as well. I had blogged about it here. But [...]

One of the biggest problems that we have had with BI EE 10g was there was no automated way of making repository deployments in Linux environments. Some of us internally in Rittman Mead have adopted UDML to script the migration from development to production. But the problem with UDML is that it cannot not generate [...]

With all the noise and publicity around the OBIEE 11gR1 launch, it’s easy to miss the fact that BI Publisher has also had a major revamp as part of the 11gR1 release. We saw a bit of a preview of this earlier in the year with the online template builder that was available in preview [...]

One of the OLAP-Aware features of BI EE 11g in Answers is the introduction of Selection Steps for additional analysis. At a high level, Selection Steps provide additional analysis capabilities that are not available directly from the Criteria tab. This provides us with more control on the SQL generated.
Till 10g, to achieve a complex report, [...]

As mentioned in the blog entry here, BI Server 11g now supports more functions which were added to support the new UI features. Each of these functions can be used as part of the Logical SQL or can even be used directly in the Answers UI. In this blog entry we shall be looking at [...]