Daily Archives Saturday, May 2008

People vs Tools and Techniques

One of the things I am doing at the moment is reviewing our delivery methodology, looking at how different techniques and can be used with the current stack of Oracle BI tools to effectively deliver projects. This involves looking the tools currently on offer, such as OBI EE or Warehouse Builder and a number of [...]

Outpost

Outpost is a reasonable film. Better than I expected, but not totally amazing. The cast is mostly British, with plenty of TV actors, but they do a reasonable job (if you can ignore a couple of dodgy accents). The story is ok, and there are a few genuinely tense moments.
If you are bored and you’ve [...]

Fedora 9 and Oracle 11g…

I wrote a couple of articles against a beta version of Fedora 9 before I went on holiday. I did a run through against the final release of Fedora 9 today and they seem fine, so here they are:

Fedora 9 (F9) Installation
Oracle Database 11g On Fedora 9 (F9)

The installation process doesn’t give you the option [...]

Essbase and OBIEE Article Now Up On OTN

My new article on Essbase and Oracle BI EE has just gone up on OTN. It covers the steps you’d need to go through to build a simple Essbase database based on the SH Sample Schema that comes with Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g, and how you’d then plug that database into Oracle Business Intelligence [...]

Back from holiday…

Just got back from holiday.
Sorry to all those people waiting for answers to their mails, blog comments and forum posts. I’m starting on the process of catching up, but it’s going to take some time.
I’m taking the brutal approach to catching up. If the subject of an email or blog post doesn’t jump [...]