One of the new things that shipped with the OBIEE 10.1.3.4 release was a new set of sample data, and a set of reports and dashboards that show off the more advanced features of OBIEE. If you download and install OBIEE now, this is the sample set of data and reports that you get instead [...]
I’m traveling over to Philadelphia later this week to speak at the Philadelphia Oracle Users Group evening on October 16th, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. My presentation is entitled “A Future Oracle BI&DW Architecture” and it takes a look at what’s now possible with Oracle Database 11g, OBIEE 10.1.3.4, EPM 11.1.1 and the new Exadata / [...]
The other day I posted about the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server, and how you could use it to add diagnostics to your query environment. Scott Powell added a comment to the posting suggesting that I take a look at the Usage Tracking feature within OBIEE, as this logs query statistics [...]
As a follow-up to the posting I did last week on Oracle BI Enterprise Edition performance tuning, I thought I’d take a closer look a the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server, the “virtual database engine” that ships with Oracle BI EE. For some time now I’ve been looking to see if [...]
Something that we’ve been working on in the background recently, and are now able to announce, are the first of our Oracle BI Training Days running in London from October 22nd to the 24th, 2008. If you’re a developer using Oracle’s latest BI tools and you’re looking to take a step up in terms of [...]
Open World ended yesterday, and today I took a trip down the peninsula to Oracle’s headquarters at Redwood Shores. I actually got the train down rather than hire a car, as I thought it’d be more interesting to get public transport rather than just drive myself down. The train station at King Street was actually [...]
Today was the final day at Open World, with a number of sessions on the new Exadata Storage Server and the Oracle Database Machine data warehouse appliance, together with the Oracle ACE Directors’ Birds of a Feather Panel Session kindly organized by Lewis Cunningham. In the end we had six ACE Directors on the stage [...]
I’m just catching up now on my Open World notes, as I’m staying for an extra day to go to Redwood Shores tomorrow for a meeting with the OWB product development team. Wednesday (Day 4) was my first day without any presentations, and with Larry’s keynote during the early afternoon I managed to go to [...]
So, the mystery “X” product was a database / data warehouse appliance, using HP Hardware and a custom storage server that takes predicates provided by the database and filters the data locally, returning just the results / columns back to the database rather than whole blocks of data. Oracle enters the data warehouse appliance market, [...]
I’m currently sitting in the audience waiting for the Larry Ellison keynote at Oracle Open World 2008. It’s just past 2pm and the crowds are coming in now. I’m not sure whether we’ll have to sit through the vendor keynotes first, if so it’ll be about an hour or so before Larry comes on, and [...]