Another popular topic on the message boards of late has been navigation between reports on Dashboards. Most commonly this involves guiding the user to another report/dashboard from a particular value displayed in the results of the initial report, for example, at a financial quarter end you may wish to drill…
All about the Cache
Here a thing that will makeyour reports run faster! Introduction to Cache Decision support queries sometimes require large amounts of database processing. If you reduce the amount of database querying then you can speed up the time to produce reports. In an Analytics system the way to reduce database accesses…
Three sheets to the wind
No, not a description of the weekend’s activities unfortunately, not a drop passed my lips. The sheets to which I refer are CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, PortalBanner.css, PortalContent.css and Views.css. You probably will not be interested to know that the original form of the expression was ‘three sheets in…
Do you feel insecure?
Security. Love it or loathe it? Most of the time the choice is yours, you can choose not to lock your house or car, you can choose not to fly, you can choose to keep your PIN in your phone memory under PIN, what you probably can’t choose is whether…
DAc days
Question. How do you load 80 million records into the Data warehouse?Answer. Slowly! As we are now in version 7.8 of the CRM application there is lots of work around upgrading from previous versions. Normally an upgrade of the data warehouse will provide companies with an opportunity to reassess what…
A quick note on Narratives
Narratives are very useful to give user information in a readable format. Some data is not easy to name so a more descriptive comment can be used instead of jus the column nameConsider:Run Date24/08/06 What does this mean? You could use: ‘The date when the latest ETL was run is:…
A slow day at the Coal Face
August 31st Today is a slow day. The database is down due to constant ORA-03113 errors, and sometimes 12152 errors. I don’t know what they are but it means we get to work late nights and weekends til the end of the project. If any of you know what these…