http://www.rittmanmead.com Delivered Intelligence Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:49:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For any large OBIEE project the normal set-up would involve having a development machine, a test machine, Production machines and some form of disaster recovery. These normally need to be on separate physical machines, mainly for access rights reason and of course the DR machines need to be in ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/03/10/multiple-obiee-environments/ In little over a month I will be in Las Vegas speaking at Collaborate 10. There is a lot of BI / DW talks this year and for the first time with BIWA Training Days branding. Rittman Mead will be there at the conference giving talks on each of the ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/03/09/thoughts-on-change-data-capture/ The 4th puzzle in this series was a reasonably simple one which basically demonstrates a capability that allows end users to bypass the security applied in the BI Server layer. There are 3 possible solutions for this Solution 1: Using Evaluate EVALUATE was introduced in the 10.1.3.3.1 version of BI EE, that ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/03/08/oracle-bi-ee-10-1-3-4-1-solutions-puzzle-4/ In the previous two postings in this series, I looked at the architecture of the Oracle BI Server, and how it processes incoming queries from Oracle BI Answers. In the latter article I touched on the concept of BI Server in-memory joins, and in this article I want to expand ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/03/03/inside-the-oracle-bi-server-part-3-bi-server-in-memory-joins/ As well as organizing our own BI Forum in the UK, another event I've had a hand in is ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010, which is due to run from June 27th - July 1st in Washington D.C. I've been the content lead for the BI, DW and Hyperion Reporting Tools stream, ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/03/02/obiee-content-at-odtug-kaleidoscope-2010/ In the first article on this series about the Oracle BI Server, I looked at the architecture and functions within this core part of the OBIEE product set. in this article, I want to look closer at what happens when a query (or "request") comes into the BI Server, and ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/03/01/inside-the-oracle-bi-server-part-2-how-is-a-query-processed/ On to the 4th puzzle in this Puzzle series. This is a very interesting Puzzle at least from the perspective of BI EE Security. We all know that BI EE provides comprehensive security within the repository. For example, the screenshot below shows that the column CHANNEL_DESC can be accessed only ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/02/28/oracle-bi-ee-10-1-3-4-1-puzzlers-puzzle-4-bypassing-security/ After almost a week of me giving out the Puzzle 3, there was hardly any interest for this one (just couple of odd replies requesting clarification of the Puzzle). Probably this is because this one has no direct practical usage and also there are lots of possibilities. But to me ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/02/27/oracle-bi-ee-10-1-3-4-1-solutions-puzzle-3/ The session that I'm giving at the BI Forum in Brighton in May is entitled "Inside the Oracle BI Server", and I'm aiming to take a closer look at the architecture and functionality of this key OBIEE component. We're all fairly aware of what the BI Server does at a ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/02/25/inside-the-oracle-bi-server-part-1-the-bi-server-architecture/ One of the things that I often come across is the "up-dateable fact", that is a fact that starts life "incomplete" and changes overtime. Examples include things such as support calls that start life as "open" then progress through "responded", "resolved" and finally "closed"; statuses in the sales cycle such ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2010/02/23/oracle-11g-pivot/