Borkur Steingrimsson - Rittman Mead

Overview of the new Cloudera Data Science Workbench

Recently Cloudera released a new product called Cloudera Data Science Workbench(CDSW) Being a Cloudera Partner, we at Rittman Mead are always excited when something new comes along. The CDSW is positioned as a collaborative platform for data scientists/engineers and analysts, enabling larger teams to work in a self-service

Big Data

Oracle GoldenGate, MySQL and Flume

Back in September Mark blogged about Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) and HDFS . In this short followup post I'm going to look at configuring the OGG Big Data Adapter for Flume, to trickle feed blog posts and comments from our site to HDFS. If you haven't done so already, I strongly recommend

Technical

Running the OBIEE Administratiol tool on Unix using Wine

The other day I was playing with getting OWB11gR2, which at the time of this writing, has only been released under Linux and Solaris, to run under Windows. In the pursuing comments Jon Mead threw down the gauntlet and asked if I could figure out a way to run the

OWB11gR2 on Windows?

So, OWB 11g R2 is out now, and has been for a few weeks - ever since the database version was released. But as a Windows version of the database hasn't been released yet we are also stuck with Linux version version of OWB. Or are we? If you think

More on High Availability: BI Publisher and BI Server authentication

I recently wrote up the various steps involved in setting up OBIEE in a cluster, here and here I was recently asked by a client to outline the steps for setting up BI Publisher with a cluster. If you installed BI Publisher during the OBI installation you most likely have

OUGN Spring Seminar 2009

I had the fortune to attend and present at the Oracle User Group Norway Spring Seminar 2009. The event took place on the grand Color Magic cruiseferry. Though most of the presentations were delivered in Norwegian there was also an English speaking track with presenters such as Oracle Ace Directors

OBIEE High Availability - Presentation Services and Scheduler

Continuing from my previous post, I'd like to talk about how to configure and set up High Availability (HA) for the Presentation Services (PS) and the Scheduler. Presentation Services With the BI services already set up in a clustered mode, managed by the Cluster Controller, the next step is to

OBIEE High Availability - The BI Server

At the beginning of the month, the majority of the Rittman Mead Consulting team was at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham. Jon Mead and myself presented a paper called "OBIEE High Availability". What we discussed was the different components of the Oracle BI EE stack, how they can be clustered

OBIEE and Outer Joins

One of the developers at a client's site came to ask me a simple question today: How do you set up an Outer Join in OBIEE? I was fairly certain that I had done so in the past, and when I looked at his physical model I saw, as the

Business Insights

Rittman Mead Consulting At the UKOUG Conference 2008

I hope the readers of this blog have already noticed that the UKOUG conference is running this week up in Birmingham. The Rittman Mead Consulting team has a stand in the exhibition hall as well as running several sessions on the conference. Please try to drop by Stand 90 and

Technical

Automatic migration of a Discoverer EUL to an OBIEE Repository

The latest release of OBIEE, version 10.1.3.4 comes with a brand new demo repository and dashboards, that Mark already talked about, in this post. This is not the only new thing to come with this latest release. For the first time now, Oracle makes available a tool

Technical

Finally I managed to write a post

A time for a post Well, it has now been close to 5 months since I joined Rittman Mead Consulting. Right after I joined up, all my previous blog posts were migrated to the RMC blog. The ensuing blog silence on my behalf did cause some people to wonder and

BIPublisher and mySQL

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

Still here and going to New Orleans

Just a quick post to tell people I am still alive. Haven't been blogging for close to two months now so I thought I'd better show a small sign of life. I spent New Year's eve up in Iceland, visiting friends and family. As soon as the smoke from all

The UKOUG 2007 is starting

Well, it was about time that I woke up from my non-blogging slumber! I have been keeping my attention on customer work and easily managed to put off blogging for quite some time now. I dare say I should try to keep the pace a bit better here and I

Virtual columns, Virtual Teams and Absolute news

I just saw a very concise post on the AMIS technology blog about virtual columns being created on tables. Given how well it is put forward there, I don't see the need to regurgitate their post, so take a quick peek and learn how cool and easy this feature is.

A week in the desert

Well, I have been out here in Qatar for a week now. The work has been quite interesting and the days have been rather busy. Jon and I haven't really had any time to take in any sights, until last night when we went to an outdoor market. It was

Off to Qatar and some ranting

So, I just settled in to my first-ever trip to Qatar. I took an SN-Brussels flight earlier this evening out to Manchester and now I am sitting in the Qatar Airways A320-300 getting ready to take off. Qatar Airways has a fantastic reputation so I must say I am quite

Technical

Managing multiple Presentation Services on the same Unix box

As I had mentioned, I wanted to write up a bit on how to go about setting up multiple Oracle BI presentation services, each configured to access a different repository file (RPD) running on the BI Server. The thing is that you can easily set up the BI server so

Summer is over

Well, not that summer actually ever arrived here in Belgium. It's been quite the opposite of last summer, which was very hot and sunny. So I guess in average my two first summers here were OK., right? But the summer did bring me some changes. For the last 5 weeks

UKOUG 2007 abstract just got accepted

Last Friday I got an email from the UKOUG Events Team informing me that my abstract, titled "Implementing Access Control for the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition" has just been accepted for the UKOUG 2007 conference in Birmingham, come December. I got a slot on the Wednesday,

It rains down in Africa

As Mark Rittman announced last week, I have just started collaborating with Rittman Mead Consulting. As a direct result I am now sitting in my hotel room in Lagos, Nigeria after the second day of running the Oracle BI EE Masterclass for a client. This is the first time that

A little bit of OMB+ goes a long way

The other day I was doing some OWB work for a client. I had done some 60 mappings of the most basic kind, when I noticed that the mapping I had used as the basis (I use copy/paste a lot when working with OWB) had the 'Maximum number of

A very clever function ….

This one doesn't quite relate to BI, but here is a function I hadn't seen before: new_time . This function accepts three arguments: A date, the timezone this date should be considered in, and the timezone you want the return value to be in. This can come in handy in

Some Discoverer news

I must admit that as the last few weeks passed by, I haven't been paying a lot of attention to other things than the Oracle BI EE suite. My current customer is in the process of adopting the OBIEE suite and all effort has gone in to getting up to