There was much speculation before the event (or was it insider info?). Anyway, the big announcement from Oracle Open World (#OOW11) is the new hardware for OBI. Exalytics I am not a great fan of conferences, down time not earning is not my cup of tea, so it’s great to…
Oracle 11g
The long awaited Oracle 11g Express is out. I will try it in a couple of VM’s before installing on our production machine here at Addidici. The question will be what integration is there for OBIEE 11g (Repository and Warehouse?) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/downloads/index.html
The Art of Pivoting
One of the nice features of OBIEE is being able to view your data from various angles. A table of data is prefered by some people, but for others they would prefer to see totals by Month, then drill in where they see issues. One of the mistakes I often…
Addidici is Born!
We are pleased to announce the new name in Oracle Business Intelligence – Addidici. Following the legal dispute with RM we have been forced to find a new home for our blog, our company, and our goods friends to find us. It’s a company name that I was toying with…
New ODI Blog
I see that John Minkjan has started a new blog on ODI. Nice one John. http://odiee101.blogspot.com/ I look forward to reading about how Oracle are going to move from Informatica to ODI!!! Or is that when?
Lifetime Support Policy
Thanks to Bindi for a posting on the Linked In Oracle Business Intelligence group for the Lifetime Support Document http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-middleware-069163.pdf @Ad
Huge Temp
I have just looked in the web server under the tmp folder, in C:fmwuser_projectsdomainsbifoundation_domainserversAdminServertmp and found 5.0 GB of space being used!! It basically creates a new folder every time you deploy an application. During dev and test this can get out of hand. To clear this down I stopped…
Filegroup1 Error on 11g
One issue that is still present in the 11.1.1.5 version of OBIEE 11g is the corruption of the download files. This happens to me one more than half the downloads of the enormous software bundle that is now OBIEE. It seems that I am not alone, and a quick lap…