OBIEE 100

This is post 100.

Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun.

And boy, OBIEE is just too much fun 🙂

Yes, there maybe new technologies turning your head, but stay faithful to OBIEE, it just gets better and better.

Blogs of the week

1. Execution Plans Part 9: Multiplication

Jonathan Lewis writes: “In part 8 we looked at a very simple execution plan involving a hash join; but that example was too simple to give us the full flavour of the arithmetic involved in Oracle’s predictions because every operation executed just once. We need to see some plans where each execution of a parent operation could requires multiple executions of its child operations; and that’s what we’re going to do in parts 9 and 10.”

2. Oracle OpenWorld Agenda Released

Eric Helmer lets us know that the Agenda is released – catch him (VP of Global IT Services at ADI Strategies and an Oracle ACE Director) presenting CON4996, Session Title: “SaaS? Cloud? Oracle Exalytics? On-Premise? Exploring Oracle EPM Deployment Options” on Monday September 29, from 2:45 – 3:30 PM at Moscone West – 3010.

3. 30 SQL Developer Tips in 30 Days, Day 3: Syntax Highlighting

Jeff Smith gives us 30 SQL Developer Tips in 30 Days. This one is day 3! Lots more tips to come.

4. 2 Options For Data Security in Tableau

Kumar Krishnaswamy goes though the Manual and Automatic options.

5. Build Your Own Time Hierarchy

Jeff McQuigg says, “Every single BI system has a time/date/period/calendar hierarchy in it. If you use the BI Apps, it actually comes with 2 different tables for this purpose alone, along with a ton of OOB capability. However, when you are faced with a pure custom system from scratch, how do you build one? What does it look like? What sort of data should it have in it?”

He covers: