Trending Up Using the Trend Line Function in OBIEE 12c One of the new features in OBIEE 12c is the availability of an “internal” R instance. This instance will allow the execution of R scripts, and the folks at Oracle have been kind enough to include some functions out of the box with the OBIEE 12c […]
Working as an IT Professional I need to adhere to standards; working in consulting these standards may vary between customer organizations. Some places are Agile shops, some are classic waterfall, others use whatever flavor of methodology that suits them best. Two things are a given though: We use source control to protect and version the
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GitHubRecently 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
Last Saturday an idea I’ve been wanting to do for a while finally came to fruition. I was able to pair up the resources around me and host a coding event for girls in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah campus called Let U Girls Code. I couldn’t have done this without Tyra
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tableau has been around for awhile now and is sort of the “name brand” when referring to new cloud and lightweight BI platforms. Given its stature I thought I would download the newest version (Tableau 10), kick the tires, and see what it’s all about. You can download a free trial and test it
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Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Excel, TableauYoda’s skepticism of Luke Skywalker’s readiness to begin training as a Jedi Knight was probably appropriate. I mean, if some guy wearing Marty McFly’s life preserver vest crash landed into my backyard with his robot sidekick in tow and brought a bad attitude too, I might feel the same way. Thankfully, Obi-Wan talked Yoda off
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Red Pill News, Tips, Training[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 a business professional with little prior technical experience who moved over to the technical side of an Oracle-centric organization, the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) was an invaluable resource for me to quickly make the transition from newbie to full fledged Oracle developer. Thanks to OTN resources like product documentation, technical articles, discussion forums, tutorials,
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General, Oracle Technology NetworkAs 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, SQLWell… it looks like Oracle ACE Director and former colleague Michael Rainey beat me to the topic. But as I read his story… I realized I could approach this in a slightly different way, so I decided to press on with my own take on ODI 12c Flexibility for Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Appreciation Day.
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