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Introduction One of the key reasons that Exalytics can deliver sub-second response times is the use of TimesTen in-memory database to hold data pre-calculated to various levels of aggregation as required by the reports. Last year I wrote about Alternatives to the Summary Advisor when considering how to build and maintain these aggregates in TimesTen [...]

Importing Metadata with the Administration Tool The client-only install of the OBIEE 11g Administration Tool is installed with a set of OCI libraries. This means that it can support basic Oracle Database interaction, without the need for a full Oracle Client installation on the machine. For example, you can update row counts in the Physical [...]

Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g give the facility to call a function in Oracle either before or after a data set is refreshed. The function must return a boolean (true/false), and if it returns false the data model will abort execution. In this article I will demonstrate how to pass a parameter through to [...]