Open 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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Oracle 12c, TipsRecently, 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.
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Events, Red Pill News, TrainingAlmost 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
