I know I don’t normally do these, but here is one for today: When you work in MUD mode, and merge your rpd, the 7.8. Admin tool will not update the variables you set offline. It will also have trouble dealing with presentation column name changes – you will find…
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
Oracle ACE
Tonsils Out
Not only has it been very busy on the client work front, busy on the sailing front, busy on the consultancy, and trying to dig out of the snow drifts, but I had my tonsils out. Will be back to shouting again soon I hope. It went pretty well apart…
Another New Blogger
Hi Grubble, Welcome to the OBIEE blogging world http://grubble.net/index.php?blog=1 adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
Localisation of OBIEE
I have no idea who these people are, but just found an interesting service which claims to double increase of user acceptance. Thats a pretty tall order, but if it works thats great. The more the merrier! http://www.bi-localizer.com/en/index.shtml They dont say which languages they cover but I assume German for…
How is your Croatian?
New blog on OBIEE. Good luck with it Goran. http://108obiee.blogspot.com/ Update: Thanks to Daan we can now view it in Englishhttp://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://108obiee.blogspot.com/ adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
Informatica vs ODI
As you would expect, the debate still goes on as to what is happening on the OBIEE ETL front. As all you ex-Siebel people will know Informatica is the system that every uses for their databases. It was licensed by Siebel to run their CRM ETL Packaged Applications. Then when…
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OBIEE Snowflakes and Stars – Part 3
A Quick recap: From Part 1 we saw that you can organise logical tables in a normalised fashion, and in a simple model the SQL will work without errors. The use of a normalised model in the Data warehouse is not something that you would normally see being advocated by…
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
I hope that at this time of year you are able to have some fun, see the family and get some rest from those projects! Lets keep our fingers crossed that 2009 will turn out to be a better year for the world, and in particular the hard working IT…
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Stars and Snowflakes
Part 2 Continuing on the discussion about OBIEE (Oracle BI EE) structure of the Logical Layer – please read Part 1 before this chapter. To set the context, The discussion is around your choices in table design in the warehouse and I am only referring to the reporting in OBIEE…
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Stars and Snowflakes
PART 1 We like to talk about the weather in England, and today it is fine – Sunny and Cold. Here in the West at night you can see all the stars and over in the East they are having light snow falls.Nature has not yet figured out how to…