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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. [...]

One of the welcome (but strangely unheralded) new features introduced with OBIEE 11.1.1.5 is support for Oracle OLAP as a data source. Earlier releases of OBIEE supported Oracle OLAP through SQL access, either directly through SQL views or through cube-organized materialized views, and there was even a plug-in to Analytic Workspace Manager to help you [...]

If you had looked at my blog entry here, i would have shown a way of reporting on Oracle OLAP 11g using the newly introduced Essbase XOLAP. As mentioned there, one of the biggest advantages of using Essbase is its tight integration with Excel through Smart View. Unfortunately, in the case Oracle OLAP, the excel [...]

This is the week of Colloborate 2010 conference. Mark, myself, Pete and Stewart were scheduled to present this year but due to the European Airspace closure, myself and Pete haven’t been able to actually travel this year. Its a real shame as we all really looked forward to this conference in Vegas. The topic that [...]

Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know of Nigel Pendse. Nigel was behind the original “OLAP Report” that offered a vendor-neutral view of the OLAP market and had run for as long as I’ve been in [...]