Has it really been that long since I caught up with the Market? There loads of great stuff going on in the OBIEE world but I have been preparing for the Sailing world – UK Championships, European Championships and World Championships all happening within a 4 week window. So, for…
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
Oracle ACE
OBIEE Week
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Post Conference Blues
Whilst in Miami we had the chance to catch up with co-author Christian Screen and meet his great team at the Art of BI. His OBIEE Products are exactly what we need, and I cant wait to implement them on my current project. Watch out for news on the next…
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#KScope15 Special blog
Each year the O D T U G runs a conference called KScope. It started as Kaleidoscope but is now known as Kscope and this year was kScope15. What is ODTUG? See the video… Anyway, this year I went along to see why everyone was raving about the conference….
Logical SQL
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YesSQL! for OBIEE
Monday is YesSQL day at Kscope15 and to show that OBIEE can party with the best, here is some useful implementation of SQL in the OBIEE front end. Ok, so it’s Logical SQL but the principle is the same. Below I will show you how to join datasets using just…
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KScope Excitement Building
I am a relative Conference Newbie, and I have never been to Miami. So to say I’m excited about going to Kscope15 is an understatement! I’m not speaking, so can just relax, learn something about OBIEE 12c and enjoy the after parties. We also have a meet the authors event…
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Just The Latest OBIEE Market Updates
Blogs of the week 1. OBIEE 11.1.1.9 released – link library Christian Berg posted links to the new release downloads and also to the New Features Guides. 2. BITeamwork 3.5 Releases to Great Excitement – OBIEE Financial Reporting Begins Here Christian Screen writes, “We’ve never had such interest and anticipation from our customers…
OBIEE
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Simples (Or how to OR or AND)
Setting a filter to find results that match one of your requirements is easy, e.g. Find me People who have used OBIEE in April or May. Peasy. (You were thinking Multi-select on your Dashboard Prompt, right?) But, what if we want to find people who have used OBIEE in April…
OBIEE Week
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Don’t Share! (Use your Own Filters)
Yes I know Sharing can be fun, but not everyone likes to share. If you share you have to play nice with the other children (developers). I like to keep everything for a single ‘project’ in one folder, all the prompts, analyses, dashboards, etc and that includes the Filters. For…
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Sailing Holidays Again
Just had another holiday at the seaside, where my daughter was competing in a Youth National Championships, and achieved Bronze Medal. Therefore I am a bit late with the blog, so on with the show… Blogs of the week 1. OBIEE – Selecting columns dynamically – part4, working with and…
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Catalog Surprises
It’s amazing how far you can push OBIEE. This week we saw a blog about copying a page on it’s own, no dashboard, just a page. One of the methods I like to use is keep all the dashboard, analysis, prompts and filters for a ‘dashboard’, in a set of…