Who understands your company Data best? Is it the OBIEE RPD Developer? Is it the DBA? Is it the Warehouse Designer? How about the source System Architect? Or the department analyst? Lets ask the question another way, Who knows what to do with the company Data in your system? The…
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OBIEE Went to Las Vegas
We have been busy, and so have all the OBIEE Bloggers. This year I thought it was about time we went to Collaborate, and boy was it worthwhile. Our room at the Delano was massive. The hotel was massive. The conference was huge. Grand Canyon unbelievable. And what can I…
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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…
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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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…
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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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Forgot your Password?
I recently started using a password manager, due to the fact that its impossible to remember all the different ones, and it would be plain stupid to have one for all sites and systems. The only problem is I have forgotten the master password to get into the password management…
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Webinar Anyone?
We are well into the conference season, January saw a gathering in San Francisco, Next week Ireland, May in Brighton and Atlanta, then the BIG one in Miami, and of course another San Francisco trip in September, before wrapping up the year in the UKOIG. Phew, thats a lot of…
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Here Comes Summer
Spring is here, Have you not noticed going to work in daylight? Of course I am referring to the Northern Hemisphere. For those down under now is the time to pack your bags and head north to the sun. There are many things you can get online, soo much fun to…
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European Highs and Lows
These last few weekends I have been visiting Spain and Switzerland. Sailing in Spain and Skiing in Switzerland. Down on the Coast in Spain and Up in the Mountains in Switzerland. The car rental in each country demonstrates the major difference between these countries. In Spain we pre booked a…