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Daily Archives Monday, April 2008

Migration OBIEE Projects Between DEV and PROD Environments

One of the clients I’m working with this week wants to go through how OBIEE environments are migrated from one environment to another. They are working on a solution for their organization where a team of developers put together an initial first cut of the repository and web catalog, and then at various points from [...]

Posted 28 April 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

AskTom Search Engine Plugin Revived

I went to AskTom to add the site’s search engine to my Firefox’s Search Bar but too bad the search engine link was broken:

So, I went ahead and created a new AskTom search engine plugin.

If you are browsing this page in Firefox 2 or above or IE7 or above, click here to install the AskTom [...]

Posted 28 April 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Web 2.0 Expo Review

The whole ‘Lab gathered in San Francisco last week to attend the Web 2.0 Expo, which explains why the content here has been stale for a week.
After a Monday huddle with Rich to plan the upgrade of Connect, our internal version social network and idea site to the Mix code line, we headed to Moscone [...]

Posted 28 April 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

10 Tips For Complete Database Newbies

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

The question I am most frequently asked is a variation of “How can I become a DBA or developer?” or “How can I learn x database?”. There are so many places to start and so many options when you do start that it can be very confusing. I got a couple of questions this weekend that made me stop and think. Some things that I take for granted are not obvious to those who are just beginning

Posted 28 April 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

we have 11g lift off

Production database was upgraded to 11g over the weekend: 9i -> 11g, SE -> EE, Windows -> Linux.
This is the first application in this client’s company to upgrade.
Seems to have gone well given that I was not called over the weekend.
As ever though, the only true test is going live and I would be [...]

Posted 28 April 2008 † dombrooks § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °