January 18, 2016

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by: Neal Achord

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Categories: Oracle 12c, Tips

Welcome 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 […]

January 13, 2016

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by: Fahd Saeed

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Categories: Oracle 12c, Tips

Get 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 […]

January 8, 2016

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by: Renee Miller

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Categories: Events, Red Pill News

Where in the world will Red Pill Analytics be this January? Heading to California of course! Our 2016 calendar is already filling up with great events and opportunites in the Analytics, Business Intelligence and OBIEE spaces and it all begins this month. We are joining leading experts in the industry at the BIWA Summit on […]

November 30, 2015

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: Events, Red Pill News, Training

Recently, Red Pill Analytics announced an innovative new training simulation for those who not only want to learn how to use OBIEE 12c, but also want to learn how to use it effectively in the real world. We call this new training “The Jump Program,” named after a simulation program in our favorite move The Matrix. […]

October 13, 2015

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by: Phil Goerdt

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Categories: Data Modeling, Tips

Almost always, joining fact tables is a big no-no in data modeling, and for good reason. From time to time however, we need to join fact tables because of architecture decisions that are outside of our control. Palpatine was right — sometimes you need to join the Dark Side. In this post I’ll tell you my method […]

October 13, 2015

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by: Kathryn Watson

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Categories: Red Pill News

“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.” […]

September 30, 2015

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by: Renee Miller

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Categories: Events, Red Pill News

Wouldn’t it be remarkable to find a group of people who use the same Oracle technologies, connect those people in meaningful ways, and build a community using those connections? Users could share tips, training, and real-world experiences, improving everyone’s technical capabilities, while building lasting relationships. Then… imagine if these groups had events where the community […]

August 5, 2015

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: Events, Red Pill News

A number of months ago I wrote a story on how Mike Riley reached out to myself and a few others to head-up ODTUG’s new Community initiative for the BI space. In that story, I talked about meet ups being one of the core areas of focus in 2015, but more specifically meetups that generate a sense of fun and […]

August 5, 2015

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: Red Pill News

Red Pill Analytics announces that Crystal Walton and Lauren Prezby are joining the company as its new Operations Director and Creative Director, respectively. Crystal and Lauren are well-known in the Oracle community for their instrumental roles in cultivating the growth of the Oracle Development Tool User Group Community (ODTUG) over the last seven years. In […]

July 26, 2015

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by: FrankDavis

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Categories: OBIEE, Tips

Next on the list… cross drilling. In dimensional modeling terms, we refer to this as “drilling across”… as in “drilling across fact tables.” We do this when we need metrics from two or more fact tables in the same analysis. This is easy when the analysis is using all conformed dimensional attributes. In most cases, […]