Fall is here and we are gearing up to head to San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld, October 1–5. However, this year Red Pill Analytics, an analytics consulting firm, will also be participating in JavaOne, October 1–5. So what is JavaOne and why are we there? Let’s start by pointing out that Stewart Bryson, one of […]
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Coding, Events, Java, Red Pill News, SQLWhen I start a new ETL project I often find it useful to have some idea how the source tables relate to each other. If I’m lucky there is documentation to guide me or even a diagram showing me how the tables link up (I do dream a lot). Of course, I could pull the
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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In this series I have been exploring various cloud Buisness Intelligence product offerings from companies like Domo and Tableau. Now it is time to review Oracle’s newish offering Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS). First of all, if you are going to combine data sources for your analysis, versus having, say, a single spreadsheet to load, the
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BICS, Cloud, Oracle, SQLAs you may have seen in the Twittersphere, today is a special date in the Oracle community, a day where we can express thanks to OTN for wealth of technical content that makes our life easier.For my tiny contribution to the day here is a little note on detecting change using SQL MINUS, maybe not
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General, Oracle Technology Network, SQLEmployees 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
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OBIEE, Snowflake, SQLFull 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
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Customer Service, Databases, Snowflake, SQLMy whole data career has been about finding the truth within data, seeking correlations within and between data sources (and not always relational sources at that). You get to notice patterns in the world and even develop skills to spot outliers on a rapidly scrolling screen. In those early days I used tools like i2
