Friday, April 25th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Earlier on this week I’ve been delivering some BI Publisher classroom training, with a day at the end for one-to-one sessions with the delegates and some consulting. One of the requirements that came up from the customer was for a report to split the various pages within it to different trays in the printer, so […]
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 […]
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
One of the presentations I’m giving on the Monday at the UKOUG Conference is a joint talk with Mike Durran, the Oracle Discoverer Product Manager. Mike is going to do an update on Discoverer migration and interoperability with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, and I’m going to show off one of the first fruits of […]
Friday, October 19th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I’d noticed a couple of comments on this blog, and some others, around the setup steps required for Oracle BI Publisher and Discoverer integration. Setting this up requires quite a few steps in the 10.1.2.2.0 release of Discoverer, which should be made a lot easier in the 10.2.0.3 release, but for now you have to […]
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
The other day I wrote about the first of the integration features between Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition in my article “Integrating Oracle Answers and Oracle Portal”. Today, I’m going to take a look at integrating Oracle Discoverer and Oracle BI Publisher, where BI Publisher can use a Discoverer worksheet as a […]
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Oracle Magazine have just published our new article, “Oracle BI Publisher: Reporting on the Familiar” where we go through the fundamentals of the tool for beginners and work through an example using sample data available in Oracle Database 10g. Take a look if you’re interested in getting up to speed with the latest version of […]
Thursday, February 8th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I’ve been spending all my spare time recently on the book I’m working on, and so deliberately stayed away from the new Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition so that I didn’t get distracted. I’ve got a couple of days free now, and as the new versions of all these bits of software - BI Enterprise […]
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
I woke up this morning with the mother of all hangovers after spending the evening in an Irish Bar around the corner from the Moscone, but at least my bag was still with me with my laptop still in it. Compared to leaving your laptop in a bar, sorting yourself out with a strong coffee […]
Friday, June 2nd, 2006 by Mark Rittman
My latest article for OTN, on
Oracle XML Publisher 5.6.2 Enterprise, is now online. In the article I talk
about the new features in the Enterprise version of XML Publisher, and walk
through the process of defining a report, laying out the template using
Microsoft Word and then uploading the report to the Web.
I also take a look at […]
Friday, May 12th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
If you read my articles earlier this year on XML Publisher 5.6 RC2, you’ll be
interested to know that the full production version, now known as XML Publisher
5.6.2, is available for download from
http://edelivery.oracle.com. It’s a bit of a convoluted download process
(choose a language, press OK, enter your details, accept the export restrictions
and then select "Oracle […]
