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I kept meaning to do a brief note on the issue of OC4J automatcally running when you start windows. I’m sure you all know how to stop it, but just on case check out http://knowledge.ciber.nl/weblog/?p=84 adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com

You wait ages for a blog to come along, then three turn up at once. I just had to mention the WHOPPING great rpd that I had to investigate the other day. It was 50 MB. Supplied by Oracle as part of the 7.9 Applications install. It’s not that it…

Have a look at the Oracle whitepaper on OBIEE and SOA. It’s the future you can read about while getting on with maintaining your 7.7 Siebel reporting (Actuate) system. http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-biee-soa.html?rssid=rss_otn_articles Don’t let people tell you otherwise – Oracle Business Intelligence is the future – what? including OWB? are you mad….

Thanks Bill. Thanks for the new windows system. not. I bought a new laptop last week, it’s a Vostro 1700 from Dell. Very good spec, loads of memory, fast cpu etc, but also including Vista. I went to install my copy of OBIEE and it refused, so it’s not backwards…

A few random thoughts for OBIEE and life at the keyboard… A few years ago we used to write javascript to refresh the screen, based upon an input value. In APEX we can put some code into the header ” meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”60″”, so I thought why not put it…

If that’s you, and you know your rpd from armpit, then please get in touch. I may be able to put you in touch with some projects that need OBIEE consultants. adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com

One little ‘feature’ of OBIEE keeps popping up in my projects – Automatic Trimming.If you have a field with data, or calculated field, that has a trailing space in then OBIEE can remove the space for you. This can lead to some issues, particularly when drilling down.Lets say you have…

Airport lounge again. Why do people think that business travel is glamorous? ANYway, I’m bored enough to finally figure out how people are hiding their contacts in LinkedIn. There is a setting you can change in the profile, but I’ll let you find out how. The big question is why…

Like all good bloggers I am finally able to sit in an airport lounge and write something about my day. I’m off to a client in the North so am flying out of Southampton.I may go to the pub tonight and may have a dinner with someone. Whilst there, I…