Nearly four weeks in the Carribean really slows you down. You get used to the slow pace of life. Breakfast at the marina cafe takes until lunchtime, Lunch takes hours, and dinner takes all night. Sailing at 5 miles per hour from glorious beach to fabulous snorkling bay is a…
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BI Conference Afternoon session
Hold that last thought. Apparently Excel is central to BI! The roadmap for BI (including Hyperion) was actually very good at keeping me awake after lunch. The 11g features of OBIEE are good, and should be out before May next year. There were hundreds of updates and improvements, which I…
Hot news from th BI conference
Firstly, Lunch at the conference is excellent. Well done Radisson! Secondly, Frank says that we should ditch Excel for BI, it’s destructive! Most importantly. Oracle now has true data mining capability. I’ve seen it here and it works. If you thought SAS was the only solution, think again. BTW, Informatica…
And Ross joins in
I have just noticed that Ross Goodman at Ecelectic is blogging, so I’ll add him to the blogroll. http://www.rossgoodman.com/2008/02/28/modelling-change-in-your-dimensions/ adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
Not really my thing.. but ..
Just to show you I can be nice!. A note from a friendly agent. PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME??? xxx I am looking for an Application Developer (Middleware) consultant for a highly prestigious Dutch client based in The Netherlands. You will be working as a software specialist for customer, where…
Rate Card
I keep meaning to put the rate card on the Majendi website. If anyone is interested this is what we charge. (all in GBP) Senior Consultant – 800 plus expensesConsultant – 750 (expenses included in home country, add on for Europe)Junior Consultant- 250 plus expenses What are the levels? Senior…
More Groups Please
I have had lots of new members sign up to my OBIEE group on linked in, most of which have some relationship with the product. I am rejecting anyone who is an agency recruiter or just a professional networker. The next step will be to develop the OBI portal which…
Need a loopback Adapter
This took me ages to find If you need to install Oracle database on a Vista Machine then this may help. 1) start device manager2) right-click top node3) add legacy hardware4) select Netwrok Adaptor5) select Microsoft6) select Loopback adapter This was from an original post at http://davedotnet.blogspot.com/2006/06/installing-loopback-adaptor-in-windows.html Also useful was…
Execute
Probably already covered elsewhere, but I had this lying around from my book notes (Many Thanks to ed Higgins) These are the executables you can find in the bin directory. Nb. Siebel support recommends the following executables are not used without prior knowledge or consulting technical support first. JobManager.exe Previously…
OC4J as a Service
Following the last post on stopping oc4j from automatic running, you may want to run oc4j as a service, so that is can be added to a batch file that starts all the analytics services. So, to Run OC4J as a windows service If you want to run oc4j as…