Full 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, SQLThis past week, I had the honor of not only attending, but speaking at Oracle Open World 2016. After a decade of working with Oracle technologies in the data integration, BI & analytics, and big data domains, attending and speaking at this event marked a much-anticipated career milestone on my end. With >60,000 attendees and
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EventsIn 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
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OBIEE, Snowflake
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
Groovy, Web Services and OBIEE 12c Read More »
OBIEE, Oracle 12cThis is a topic that I was teaching about last night in my Digital Analytics class at the University of Utah and instead of only sharing what I found with my students, I thought I’d share here in the blogosphere. What I’ve found was yes it’s easy to pull Twitter posts into R for analysis!
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Code, Data Science, R, TwitterIf 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
Forecast: Partly Cloudy (Part 2) Read More »
OBIEEOne 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
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OBIEEThis blog post is an entry in the ODTUG Kscope16 Cross-Track Blog Hop, an exercise for Kscope expert regulars to take a walk on the wild side, and talk about must-see sessions in a foreign content track. The other Blog Hop entries are: APEX sessions not to be missed, as recommended by EPM expert Cameron Lackpour: http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2016/05/kscope16-apex-sessions-im-interested-in.html
What You Positively Have to See in the Database Track at Kscope16 Read More »
Events, Red Pill NewsThe 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
UCP Alert— Unidentified Connection Pools Read More »
Direct Database Request, OBIEE, TipsOBIEE 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,
Help! The WebLogic Dog Ate My Pages! Read More »
OBIEE, Tips, Weblogic Server