I think it’s fair to say that I like models. Whether manifested with Legos, metadata, or economic indicators, I love seeing how inputs can affect outputs. So, when I discovered the forecast capabilities in the R suite, I couldn’t wait to give it a go. Never Tell Me the Odds! Many of the companies I have […]
Clustering. Whether we’re talking about headaches, compute nodes, or uh, well, I’ll let you fill in the blank… isn’t anything worth doing, worth doing together? Clustering can be a powerful tool for understanding the relationships between data, and in this post I’ll walk through how to use the OBIEE 12c Advanced Analytics Cluster Function. As […]
Trending Up Using the Trend Line Function in OBIEE 12c One of the new features in OBIEE 12c is the availability of an “internal” R instance. This instance will allow the execution of R scripts, and the folks at Oracle have been kind enough to include some functions out of the box with the OBIEE 12c […]
Yoda’s skepticism of Luke Skywalker’s readiness to begin training as a Jedi Knight was probably appropriate. I mean, if some guy wearing Marty McFly’s life preserver vest crash landed into my backyard with his robot sidekick in tow and brought a bad attitude too, I might feel the same way. Thankfully, Obi-Wan talked Yoda off […]
Full Disclosure: I’ll be the first to tell you I’m not a DBA. I have a working knowledge of databases and “mainstream” SQL statements. I’m usually content to stay in my area of expertise and just query the data, make sure that the data is correct, and build some great content for clients. If you […]
In my last post, I discussed Snowflake’s unique cloud offering, and how to get it connected to OBIEE. In this post, I’ll give a brief overview of what Snowflake’s Time Travel feature is, how to use it from a query perspective, and how to integrate this feature into OBIEE. [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjsUxbNmIs”][/pexyoutube]Where We’re Going… We Don’t Need […]
If you’re reading this post, you’ve probably seen my other post on connecting OBIEE to Amazon Web Services’ Redshift database offering. If not, thanks for joining in for this part of the adventure. To summarize the last post, cloud applications are becoming increasingly more common, and because of this fact, more of the data that is produced […]
One thing that is for certain is that the cloud is here to stay. With more and more offerings having a cloud component, managing data and applications that are not on-premises will become commonplace. Some applications are optimized for this brave new world we’re living in (Oracle BICS comes to mind), but the old guard […]
OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0 is a big step up from the earlier versions, and there are plenty of great things to appreciate about it. However, one thing that I am not that excited about is an error that crops up from time to time in Enterprise Manager. The mystery error looks a little like this: As usual, […]
Who doesn’t love a solid VM workstation? I’m a big fan of these given their scalability and low maintenance (just update that master image and redeploy!). Not to mention the fact that I can use fancy buzzwords like “cloud” and “virtualization”. Jokes aside, VMs are awesome developer tools and here at Red Pill, we recommend using […]