A few weeks ago I ran a two-part interview (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/22/interview-with-phil-bates-oracle-business-intelligence-architect-part-1/] and here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/23/interview-with-phil-bates-oracle-business-intelligence-architect-part-2/] ) on the blog with Phil Bates, Architect for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Phil kindly invited questions at the end

If your ETL process fails, for whatever reason, you have two options: to restart the process from the beginning, or to resume from the last successfully completed task. <h3>Restarting from beginning</h3> <p>It is reasonable easy to restart the process in <

It's the UK Oracle User Group [http://www.ukoug.org/]'s 25th Anniversary this year, and throughout this year they are running a series of competitions that any member can enter. Rittman Mead Consulting are proud to be sponsoring this months' competition and have put up

[http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com] I'm writing this posting mid-way across the North Sea returning from the Swedish and Finnish User Group Conference, and looking in my diary I've noticed it's only a few weeks until it's time for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

If you've read my recent OTN article on Essbase [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-essbase.html] and you're an old Essbase hand, one of the things you might have picked up on what that I defined my dimension members using the descriptive columns in

We have been accepted onto the OWB 11gR2 beta program, so over the next few months we will be putting the new features (and some of the old ones) through their paces. There are some pretty strong new features with the product, we are unable to provide details of these

I was recently in a situation where I had to delete a package (transformation) in OWB and then re-import it from the database, because I had deleted it and re-imported it, every mapping and process flow that referenced the package lost its reference to it. I could have gone through

Dan Vlamis [http://www.vlamis.com/blog.php] sent me a link through to a recent article by Mark Whitehorn on "Data Bashups" [http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/news/column/0,294698,sid91_gci1311928,00.html?track=NL-520&ad=638872&asrc=EM_USC_3585266&uid=7935708]

I got a call late today inviting me to a discussion with Charles Phillips [http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/pressportal/exec/cphillips.html] , Oracle's President, on Web 2.0 that's being held in London next week. The invite has gone out to "bloggers

One of the clients I'm working with this week wants to go through how OBIEE environments are migrated from one environment to another. They are working on a solution for their organization where a team of developers put together an initial first cut of the repository and web

I've been doing a lot of traveling recently, which as usual means that I've been doing a lot of reading. I normally take a novel with me when I'm on the road but based on some recommendations, I've been working through a

Earlier on this week I've been delivering some BI Publisher classroom training, with a day at the end for one-to-one sessions with the delegates and some consulting. One of the requirements that came up from the customer was for a report to split the various pages within it

Another new feature within BI Publisher that I noticed when looking through Borkur's new BI Publisher course is support for more than one data source in a report. This was sort of possible with earlier (XML Publisher) releases of the product, but recent versions of BI Publisher have

In yesterday's article [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/22/interview-with-phil-bates-oracle-business-intelligence-architect-part-1/] I posted the first half of an email interview with Phil Bates, architect for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition based down in Bristol, UK. Phil's focus is on the vision, direction, architecture and development

One of the things you might not know about product development for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is that a lot of it happens down the road from us, in Bristol in the UK. Oracle's team in Bristol and the UK were originally responsible for Oracle Discoverer, and

I'm running a BI Publisher course this week, and one of the areas the client was really interested in was integration of BI Publisher with Oracle ApEx. As the notes on OTN and various blogs are sometimes a bit confusing, I thought I'd do a quick

As Mark mentioned [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/18/collaborate08-finishing-up/] and illustrated last week, I really did have an audience to my talk on Cube-Organized Materialized Views. He also managed to choose a camera angle for one of the photos that made the conference room look completely empty,