Oracle has announced Oracle Exadata, a “database machine”, marking the first ever hardware-based solution in Oracle’s product line. This thing looks pretty impressive. It’s basically a server rack that has 8 database servers and 14 storage servers and 4 24-port network switches, running Oracle 11g RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux. It supports up to 46 [...]
I received the following email this morning:
Attention OBIEE Interested Parties
Oracle University would like your opinion. They are in the very preliminary stages of scoping out the viability of an OBIEE certification path. Please click the link below to fill out a short survey.
http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/ou_online_display_survey.display_survey?p_survey_no=300&p_preview=N
It would seem Oracle University is considering updating the certification path for [...]
If you’ve read my previous post about Using the Top N Filter, this will be a follow up post that covers a trick I discovered when the Top N filter didn’t do what I wanted it to do.
My requirement is to only show data for the past 6 weeks. I have a base table that [...]
When working on systems with frequent data loads, the OBIEE cache can often prevent end users from seeing the latest data. Sometimes it’s appropriate to disable caching on particular tables or reports. OBIEE has two types of caching mechanisms - Presentation Services caching and individual table caching.
The following link provides a few very good posts [...]
Learn to use the Top N filter to filter results in Answers requests. Covers advanced usage of the Top N filter using the by clause, to show the Top N results within a particular grouping (i.e., Top N Customer Revenue amounts by Product):
