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Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
Oracle ACE
Multiple OBIEE Environments on one Box
The Oracle preferred method of having multiple environments is to have them installed on their own machines, either real or virtual. For many organisations this is simple enough, particularly if you run a good environments service which facilitates the easy set-up of virtual Windows or Linux boxes. Where there are…
OBIEE 11g Windows Services
In 10g half your installation job is done for you; unix scripts and windows services all delivered out of the box, and pretty much working too! In 11g you have to do the hard work yourself :(. Firstly, you may be wondering why Oracle did not provide windows services already…
Free stuff from Oracle
The 11g Express Database is finally out in Beta: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/11gxe-beta-download-302519.html?msgid=3-3822972261 And the free SQL Developer is in version 3 – time to upgrade? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/overview/index.html?msgid=3-3822972261
They’re doing it again
Another year, and another set of interviews, for another project, but still the same poor candidates. If you want a job on an OBIEE project, as an OBIEE developer then you should be able to answer simple questions about the BI Server, The repository and using Answers. AM I asking…
OBIEE 11g Integration With Active Directory – Part 2
In part one I shared with you the first section of the Oracle white paper on integrating 11g with AD. Following it to the letter worked fine, but there were a couple of glitches. The only groups we wanted to match into Application Roles were those with OBIEE in their…
OBIEE 11g Integration With Active Directory
Having just installed 11g in a Windows 2008 I thought I would share the experience. It was actually fairly simple, but there were a couple of gotchas. Thankfully Oracle produced a white paper on this in December last year, which I will show extracts of below: Introduction The paper…
Goodbye DB, Hello World
What a breath of fresh air. I just completed an INstallation of OBIEE 11g in Windows, clustered and integrated with Active Directory. The people were great, it’s so nice to be working with friendly people again, you know, the type that does not try to stab you in the back…
Not an OBIEE blog posting
This is just too weird…. http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1264016746390RA38 But looks like I am vain enough to pass it on adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com