Testing aggregate navigation on OBIEE and Exalytics

Saturday, May 18th, 2013 by

One of OBIEE’s many great strengths is aggregate navigation; the ability to choose from a list of possible tables the one which will probably give the optimal performance for a given user query. Users are blissfully unaware of which particular table their query is being satisfied from, since aggregate navigation happens on the BI Server [...]

Advanced Presentation Services settings for OBIEE testing & development

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 by

As John Minkjan pointed out a while ago, the XSD (XML Schema) for the OBIEE configuration files can yield some interesting things. I’ve been looking at obips_config_base.xsd and found the following bits of information which I think could help certain testing and development work with OBIEE. First off, the standard disclaimer about undocumented functionality goes [...]

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