Last time I went through some of the basics about getting the latest patch-set of ODI to connect to a GitHub.com VCS repository. Today I will talk a little about versioning our ODI development in Git. Navigator The first point to make is that we can select the objects we wish to version-track in Git, […]
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 […]
Working as an IT Professional I need to adhere to standards; working in consulting these standards may vary between customer organizations. Some places are Agile shops, some are classic waterfall, others use whatever flavor of methodology that suits them best. Two things are a given though: We use source control to protect and version the […]
The Data Challenge Have you ever wanted to assess or explore a new BI, analytics, data visualization, data science, etc. technology, but struggled to find a data set to use for your assessment and exploration activities? Have you grown tired of analyzing the “typical” datasets–think census, stock market, and employment and inflation rate data–known to be publicly available? […]
Recently I had a couple of interesting situations pop up in OBIEE 11g regarding dates. No not the edible kind, but the calendar kind. Specifically where it involves fact measures that are valid for a period of time beyond what the date id(s) on the rows in the table allow. The first scenario I will […]
Last Saturday an idea I’ve been wanting to do for a while finally came to fruition. I was able to pair up the resources around me and host a coding event for girls in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah campus called Let U Girls Code. I couldn’t have done this without Tyra […]
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 […]
As a business professional with little prior technical experience who moved over to the technical side of an Oracle-centric organization, the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) was an invaluable resource for me to quickly make the transition from newbie to full fledged Oracle developer. Thanks to OTN resources like product documentation, technical articles, discussion forums, tutorials, […]