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 […]
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OBIEE, TipsWhat are you in for when migrating from OBIEE 11g to 12c? Short answer is there is a lot less pain going from 11g to 12c than there was going from OBIEE 10g to 11g. The upgrade to 12c is an out of place upgrade as was the 10g to 11g which means new software
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Oracle 12c, TipsOpen the dashboard editor in 12c, you’ll see a few changes. What Changed?? Well, dashboard development has never been the sexiest task, but it is a little simpler now. You can browse to BI content in the Shared Folders, just as you could before, but now you can also browse to dashboard content. In the
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OBIEE, Oracle 12cHow many times this week have you googled a technical question and found a blog, an article, a forum post or slides from a presentation? I do this multiple times per day! And while my undergraduate degree taught me a lot, especially how to approach problems, I learned most of what I know about business
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Events, General, Red Pill NewsThis is my first contribution on Medium under the Red Pill Analytics brand. I hope I will keep up the high standards of my co-workers. One of the projects I have been working on recently had a requirement to enrich some data by bringing back additional information from a legacy system, For various reasons they
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ODILast week I presented at the BIWA Summit a “Cage Match” between Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Answers and Data Visualization. In full disclosure, these slides were created by Kevin McGinley and I simply was the presenter of these slides. However, I believe that I set the bar high for when Kevin presents these next. 🙂 This
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Data Visualization, Oracle DV, TipsI’m super-excited about a presentation I’m giving with Kellyn PotVin-Gormanat RMOUG Training Days next month, called Performance Analytics: Visualizing the Power of the AWR Warehouse. Alright… if you insist… I’ll give a quick plug. Kellyn and the team have been working to build the AWR Warehouse component of Enteprise Manager to store Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) history for the
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Oracle 12c, TipsRed Pill Analytics is looking forward to hitting the strip and linking up with other Oracle users and community members at Collaborate16 in Las Vegas on April 10–14, 2016. Red Pill will join the amazing list of presentations and panels filled with the latest tips and information about various Oracle topics. Add these great sessions
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Events, Red Pill NewsWelcome as the changes to OBIEE 12c are, the day after install generated for me basic questions to where things went and how things work. Tasks like restarting the system, checking status and moving repositories/catalogs are quite different in 12c. At least they are different enough to have me searching the file system for file
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Oracle 12c, TipsGet yourself a virtual machine (VM)! With a VM its easy to snapshot along the way or start all over again. If your machine is not capabale of hosting a VM than perhaps pick an older or newer laptop / desktop with 8GB of memory to spare that you do not mind installing / filling
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