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The Good, The Bad, and the Gorgeous

Some tips, tricks and thoughts on using Google Data Studio Red Pill Analytics recently delivered a solution that exclusively used Google Cloud Platform. Our client, a marketing team at Google, wanted to know how they were engaging with users across several online channels. We used Google Analytics, YouTube Analytics, AdWords, among other sources via BigQuery to […]

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Big Data, Cloud, Data, Data Visualization, Google Cloud Platform

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Bulk Loading Zone

Whether it’s an enterprise application, the automobile you drive, or your favorite tea kettle, seemingly everything in the world today produces data. This results in a need to transfer data to a place where people and technology can make sense of it. Typically, the faster data can be transferred and more data that can be

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AWS, Cloud Computing, Data, Snowflake Computing

Using Oracle’s Baseline Validation Tool with OBIEE — Part 2

This post is part 2 of 4 about using the Baseline Validation Tool (BVT) with Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE). Post 1 with an intro to BVT, can be found here. Obtain the BVT tool Download the latest version of BVT from Oracle. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi/downloads/bi-bvt-download-3587672.html Unzip the download into a directory on your computer. To save yourself typing later on,

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Code, JavaScript

TimestampAdd Error in OBIEE Migration from 11g to 12c

I have a report that works fine in OBIEE 11g but when upgraded to 12.2.1.2, it gives an error stating: [nQSError: 22025] Function TimestampAdd is called with an incompatible type. This report has a SQL Expression in a filter that states: TimestampAdd(SQL_TSI_HOUR, 4.5, CURRENT_DATE) The problem is that we are trying to add hours onto

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OBIEE, Oracle

Using Oracle’s Baseline Validation Tool with OBIEE — Part 1

This post is part 1 of 4 about using the Baseline Validation Tool (BVT) with Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE). Overview of BVT With the 12c release of OBIEE, Oracle released a new tool called the Baseline Validation Tool or BVT. This tool allows you to run specific tests against your OBIEE reports, dashboards, and BI Publisher

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Coding, OBIEE, Oracle, Oracle 12c

Proof that Less can be More

Snowflake Data Warehouse release 2.11 (September 7, 2017) included the addition of an OVERWRITE parameter for the INSERT command. INSERT OVERWRITE effectively consolidates two commands, TRUNCATE TABLE and INSERT, into one. INSERT OVERWRITE also deletes the file load history and retains access control privileges on the target table; both of which are not insignificant details.

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Red Pill Analytics Tips, Snowflake, Tips

Coding is Cool Again — Join us at JavaOne

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, SQL

Got Lunch Plans on User Group Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld?

Some of the best presentations at Oracle Open World are on User Group Sunday, on Oct 1st. It can be challenging to pay attention in sessions though when your stomach is growling because there’s no conference meal that day. Regional User Groups have the solution! Join regional user groups at the Children’s Museum next to

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Events, Red Pill News, Women In Tech

Joining It All Up

When 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

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Oracle 12c, SQL, Tips

How to Use the New R ODBC Package to Connect to an Oracle Database

Last month a new R package was released called ODBC to improve the ability to connect to relational databases. By using these universal connection packages such as DBI and ODBC, you’ll be able to easily port your code to different databases. If you currently use RODBC to connect to Oracle, you’ll like ODBC more! ODBC

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Databases, R, Women In Tech

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