Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: ETL Iteration
This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check the introductory posting which I have updated with all the entries in the...
View ArticleInterview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12
Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to...
View ArticleReal-Time BI with Kevin & Stewart: New internet “talk show”
Kevin McGinley and myself have created a new internet talk show, airing on YouTube and Vimeo, called “Real-Time BI with Kevin & Stewart”. Kevin, if you recall, is teaching the Master Class at the...
View ArticleODTUG Kscope 2012 BI Track’s Interactive Mad-Dash-Boards
Sorry to break in on Mark’s Endeca series this week, but I wanted to give a quick update on some ODTUG Kscope 2012 news. It’s tradition at Kscope to follow the Monday Night Keynote presentation with a...
View ArticleUsing OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 1: Introduction
What’s the pervasive myth surrounding the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) product suite? OBIEE is only useful for reporting against star schemas. It’s true that the Business...
View ArticleUsing OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 2: Aliases
It seems like a different life when I posted the introduction to reporting against transactional schemas. Since that time, we’ve had some exciting new customers come aboard, which has required a lot of...
View ArticleThe PIVOT Clause is Only for Aggregates
We briefly interrupt the transactional schemas series for this important message: the PIVOT clause of SELECT is only for aggregates! When Oracle added the PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators in Database 11g,...
View ArticleUsing OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 3: Simple Dimensions and Facts
This could be the longest series of blog posts in Rittman Mead history… not in number of posts (this is only the third), but in length of time from start to finish. I don’t think that’s a record anyone...
View ArticleUsing OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 4: Complex Dimensions
You guessed it… more on transactional schemas. For a quick recap, here are the posts to date: Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 1: Introduction Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas...
View ArticleBIWA 2013 Welcome Reception
You may have seen information on our website about the BIWA Summit and how excited we are to be attending. It’s great to have a separate BIWA event again, and to help ensure it’s success, Rittman Mead...
View ArticleUsing OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 5: Complex Facts
I’ve finally gotten around to finishing this series… I believe it’s actually been a year in the making. I’m planning on being more proactive with getting content on the blog. Actually… the main reason...
View ArticleRittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Cary Millsap
I feel like I’m introducing the Beatles… though I think Kellyn Pot’Vin calls them the “DBA Gods”. Today I’ll be talking about Cary Millsap, and tomorrow I’ll introduce our other special guest: Alex...
View ArticleRittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Alex Gorbachev
A few days back, I introduced our special guests for the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, focusing first on Cary Millsap. Today I’d like to talk about our other special guest: Oracle ACE Director Alex...
View ArticleMDS XML versus MUDE Part1: Introduction
This is my first blog post in quite a while… mostly because of all the planning and preparation that went into the Rittman Mead BI Forum, which is now sadly behind us. There’s been a lot of other...
View ArticleMDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE?
Mark Rittman once joked during a presentation on OBIEE and SCM that “MUDE” (multiuser development environment) was the closest thing to a dirty word in the OBIEE documentation. I know many people who...
View ArticleMDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git
In the previous installment of this series, I gave an overview of MUDE (multi-user development environment), and described it’s strengths and weaknesses, hopefully presenting a fair assessment on both...
View ArticleMDS XML versus MUDE Part 4: Simple Multi-Branch Development
After getting our MDS XML repository ready for development in the last post, I am ready to demonstrate what multi-user development without MUDE would look like using Git as our version control system...
View ArticleMy Journey to ODI 12c
Most readers of this blog probably know me for my time spent with OBIEE (especially my work in repository development), but I’m guessing some of you long-time readers know that I grew up working with...
View ArticleAutomated RPD Builds with OBIEE
Introduction Some time ago, I wrapped up a four-part series on using MDS XML as a basis for RPD development. Of course… you can (re-) read the blog posts to get up to speed on the concept… but I’ll...
View ArticleNew OTN Article: Making the Move from Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle Data...
One of the reasons I’ve been silent on the blog lately regarding new Oracle Data Integrator 12c content (even though I promised it some months ago) is because I’ve been writing an article focused on...
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