On a British Airways flight today, to Italy as it happens, I noted in the Financial Times that Sony is scaling back its television production and focusing on other consumer areas such as touch screen production and games. Also in the news this week was the sacking by UBS of…
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 11g Book OUT NOW!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the OBIEE 11g book is available to buy from today. The book is directly aimed at newcomers to OBIEE, and given the rise in OBIEE sales there are lots of potential buyers! Buy it from these stores: OBIEE 11g Book on the…
RCU on MS SQL Server
One of the several per-install task for the rcu on a MS SQL Server database is to set the general database security to allow SQL Server Authentication as well and windows. @ddi
Dylan Wan in Todays OBIEE News
The latest edition of OBIEE News is out, featuring a headline article by Dylan Wan on ODI.
OBIEE 11g R1.6 New Admin Feature
“Scan and Update Catalog Objects That require Updates” I wonder what that does…
OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Installs in record time
For the last three years I have been installing OBIEE 11g. It has been a painful and disappointing process – unitl now. I just downloaded, installed RCU and full Enterprise edition in less than ONE HOUR. Amazing! Thank you Oracle. It took you a while but you now seem…
OBIEE 11G version 11.1.1.6 Release
The tweeters did a good job of sending out the word that version 6 of version 1 is now available for download from edelivery.oracle.com. I have downloaded and installed the RCU and guess what?, IT WORKED! Yippee. It’s definitely time to start recommending version 11g to your clients. I will…
Avoid Firefox 10
Note: Christian had beaten me to this! http://www.artofbi.com/index.php/2012/02/firefox-10-not-compatible-with-oracle-bi-11-1-1-5/
Active Directory Installation
We recently installed a set of new servers at Addidici HQ for testing and development of OBIEE 11g. I wanted to make it more real world so we included Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD) on one of the servers. Having never installed or used MSAD as an administrator previously, I quickly…