Recently I decided to try out the new patching capabilities for the metadata in OBIEE 11g. The big reason for me was to avoid having to rese...

On Wednesday, I attended Cary Millsap's Mastering Oracle Trace Data class here in Tampa. Why? Why would I go? I am working with OBI...

Last year I had the pleasure of getting the Sunday Symposium together for KScope 11, this year, I have completed my takeover of the Databas...

If you are a baseball fan, last night was spectacular. Even more so, if like me, you were fans of either the Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox...

I haven't seen too many (ok, none) of these this year, but one today hit home: Predicting OBIEE 11.1.1.6 by Joe Leva. I've been l...

Early this morning ZDNet's Larry Dignan reported that Oracle would be announcing the "Exadata Mini" edition: Oracle's ...

Recently I was asked to create some merchandise that fell outside of my norm. Specifically, I was asked to create a onesie, or piece baby o...

SQL> SELECT TO_DATE( 20111001, 'YYYYMMDD' ) - SYSDATE time_to_oow 2 FROM dual; TIME_TO_OOW ----------- 15.8921065 Wow. Just ...

For the past couple of years George Woods has been compiling a list of Twitterites who will be attending Oracle OpenWord. 2009 and 2010 . ...

I'm in the process of building out a tip-to-tail dev/test system that includes the components from OBIA. The components include: - EBS...

Pythian , the world's leading remote DBA service company, has announced the (non-hostile) acquisition of John Piwowar. Wait, Pythian di...

Previously I wrote about how to start and stop individual components via Enterprise Manager. This time, I'm going to run through the m...

The very first thing I thought, after firing up my first OBIEE 11g instance, was how freaking intimidating it was. You have Enterprise Man...

Yesterday I was having problems simply converting the Usage Tracking catalog. It may or may not be related to having Web Tier (or any other...

Amusingly, the Usage Tracking components (RPD, Web Catalog) must be upgraded from 10g to 11g (11.1.1.5 for me). Not sure how this was missed...

I decided to blow away one of my newly created databases. Instead of using the DBCA, I decided to try it manually. DROP DATABASE; DROP DATA...

I haven't done much with the T-Shirt collection lately. For whatever reason, I finally decided to do one in pink. You have one month ...

by Husam Khalaf I had a requirement to automate running a set of BI Publisher reports using the corporate fiscal calendar. The problem with...

A few weeks ago I tried out YSlow on OBIEE 11g . I finally managed to find some time to mess around with Oracle Web Tier (HTTP and WebCac...

My ode to Joel Kallman .