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 […]
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 […]
Employees at the Minneapolis Red Pill Analytics office recently had the luxury of sitting with Snowflake’s Steve Herskovitz for some on-site education. Among other things, one of my key takeaways from the exercise was how simple it is to query JSON data in the Snowflake Data Warehouse. The syntax is straightforward and makes the process […]
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’ve followed me for any length of time, you know I’m a fan of the Groovy language. It’s unfettered support for closures has made it a popular choice for writing domain-specific language (DSL) projects such as Gradle and Jenkins, and the healthy dose of syntactic sugar spooned in at runtime means that developers spend less time boiler-plating and more time […]
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 […]
The other day I was playing around with the Direct Database Request (DDR) feature within OBIEE. The reason I did this is I wanted to create a report that utilized columns from the database that were not exposed in OBIEE, yet still utilize the functionality of OBIEE. Why else would you use this and how […]
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, […]