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Rittman Mead at Analytics and Data Summit 2019

The Analytics and Data Summit 2019 (formerly known as BIWA) is happening next week in Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores. I'm excited to participate since it's one of the best conferences for the Oracle Analytics crowd where you can get three days full of content from

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How Are My Users Connecting? Analyzing OAC and OBIEE entry points

Are you managing an OAC or OBIEE instance and your life is nice and easy since you feel like having everything in control: your users browse existing dashboards, create content via Analysis, Data Visualization or SmartView and deliver data via Agents or download dashboard content to use in Excel. You

ThanksODC

ODC Appreciation Day: Oracle Cloud PSM Cli

Oracle Developer Community (ODC) Appreciation Day [https://oracle-base.com/blog/2018/09/27/oracle-developer-community-odc-appreciation-day-2018-thanksodc/] (previously know as OTN Appreciation Day) is a day, started from an initiative of Tim Hall [https://oracle-base.com], where everyone can share their Thanks to the Oracle community by writing about a favourite product, an

OAC

OAC 18.3.3: New Features

I believe there is a hidden strategy behind Oracle's product release schedule: every time I'm either on holidays or in a business trip full of appointments a new version of Oracle Analytics Cloud is published with a huge set of new features! OAC 18.3.3

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Looker for OBIEE Experts: Introduction and Concepts

Looker for OBIEE Expert, and Introduction describing Looker concepts with the eyes of an OBIEE Expert.

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Parsing Badly Formatted JSON in Oracle DB with APEX_JSON

Using APEX_JSON to parse malformed JSON documents allowing the extraction of all the information contained.

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DevOps in OAC: Scripting Oracle Cloud Instance Management with PSM Cli

This summer we unselfish Italians decided to not participate to the World Cup to give another country the opportunity to win (good luck with that England!). This decision, which I strongly support, gives me lot of time for blogging! As already written, two weeks ago while in Orlando for Kscope18

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Kscope18: It's a Wrap!

As announced few weeks back I represented Rittman Mead at ODTUG's Kscope18 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2018/05/rittman-mead-at-kscope-2018/] hosted in the magnificent Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort [https://www.swandolphin.com/]. It's always hard to be credible when telling people you are going to

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Rittman Mead at Kscope 2018

Kscope 2018 is just a week away! Magnificent location (Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort [https://www.swandolphin.com/groupres/KSCNR/]) for one of the best tech conferences of the year! The agenda is impressive (look here [https://kscope18.odtug.com/page/presentations]) spanning over ten different tracks from

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Rittman Mead at OUG Norway 2018

This week I am very pleased to represent Rittman Mead by presenting at the Oracle User Group Norway [http://ougn.no] Spring Seminar 2018 delivering two sessions about Oracle Analytics, Kafka, Apache Drill and Data Visualization both on-premises and cloud. The OUGN conference it's unique due to both

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KSQL: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka

Few weeks back, while I was enjoying my holidays in the south of Italy, I started receiving notifications about an imminent announcement by Confluent [https://www.confluent.io]. Reading the highlights almost (...I said almost) made me willing to go immediately back to work and check all the details about

ODC Appreciation Day: OBIEE's Time Hierarchies

After last year successful OTN Appreciation Day [https://oracle-base.com/blog/2016/10/12/otn-appreciation-day-summary/], it's time again to show our love for a particular feature in any Oracle's tool we use in our work. You may have noted a name change with OTN now becoming

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Game of Thrones S07 Last Episode: The Summary

Watch the Episode First! It's a friendly suggestion... The final #GoT episode was transmitted last Sunday, now two years waiting for the next season... How can HBO be so cruel??? And how can I find interesting content for my future blog posts??? At least now European football (not

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The Week After: Game of Thrones S07 E06 Tweets and Press Reviews Analysis

Another week is gone, another "Game of Thrones" episode watched, only one left until the end of the 7th series. The "incident" [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-6-leaks-online-full-hbo-spain-torrents-download-reddit-watch-jon-a7895636.html] in Spain, with the episode released for few hours on Wednesday screwed all my

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How was Game Of Thrones S07 E05? Tweet Analysis with Kafka, BigQuery and Tableau

I don't trust statistics and personally believe that at least 74% of them are wrong.... but I bet nearly 100% of people with any interest in fantasy (or just any) TV shows are watching the 7th series of Game of Thrones [http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones] (GoT) by

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Analyzing Wimbledon Twitter Feeds in Real Time with Kafka, Presto and Oracle DVD v3

Last week there was Wimbledon, if you are a fan of Federer, Nadal or Djokovic then it was one of the events not to be missed. I deliberately excluded Andy Murray from the list above since he kicked out my favourite player: Dustin Brown. Two weeks ago I was at

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Oracle Data Visualization Desktop v3

The ODTUG Kscope17 [http://kscope17.com] conference last week in San Antonio was a great event with plenty of very interesting sessions and networking opportunities. Rittman Mead participated during the thursday deep dive BI session and delivered three sessions [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/06/rittman-mead-at-kscope-2017/] including a special

OBIEE12c

OBIEE 12c Catalog Validation: Command Line

I wrote a blog post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/11/performing-a-catalog-validation/] a while ago describing the catalog validation: an automated process performing a consistency check of the catalog and reporting or deleting the inconsistent artifacts. In the post I stated that catalog validation should be implemented regularly as

Impala

SQL-on-Hadoop: Impala vs Drill

I recently wrote a blog post about Oracle's Analytic Views [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/04/metadata-modeling-in-the-database-with-analytic-views/] and how those can be used in order to provide a simple SQL interface to end users with data stored in a relational database. In today's post I&

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Oracle Analytics Cloud: Product Overview

We at Rittman Mead are always helping our customer solving their problems, many times we heard them * being unsure about the sizing of their server * being worried about the upfront cost of the licensing * having recurring nightmares about patching * willing to try the cloud but couldn't find the

Oracle

Metadata Modeling in the Database with Analytic Views

12.2 [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html] , the latest Oracle database release provides a whole set of new features [https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/exadata-express-cloud/csdbf/oracle-database-12-2-new-features.html#GUID-D0673E3E-DF05-47C3-B1E2-BEF91FA36CEF] enhancing various aspects of the product including JSON support, Auto-List Partitioning and APEX news

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OBIEE 11.1.1.7: Is It Still Supported?

Last week, during a quiet working morning, my colleague Robin Moffatt [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/author/robin-moffatt/] sent me a link that changed my working focus for few hours. The link was to "OBIEE 11g: Required and Recommended Bundle Patches and Patch Sets (Doc ID 1488475.1)"

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OBIEE 12c Time Dimension: Logical Sequence Number

The key component of any successful OBIEE implementation is the metadata model known as the repository (RPD). Doing it right is sometimes considered "black magic", and small mistakes in the RPD can impact all the exposed Subject Areas, resulting in poor performances or, even worse, wrong results. Working

Oracle

Analyse Your Data on the Go with Oracle Synopsis App

How many times did you receive an email on your phone with an Excel or CSV attachment you wanted to analyse immediately in an app on your mobile, without having to wait until you reach the laptop? Not only viewing raw numbers but also creating graphs and summaries with the

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Catalog Validation: Why, What, When, Where and How?

One of the features everybody "loved" about OBIEE 11g were the Global Unique Identifiers [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.1111/e10543/privileges.htm#BIESC721] (GUIDs), used to recognize users and groups based on an identifier that could be different from the username. The original aim