(AI) Smells on Medium

As part of compiling the monthly interesting links posts, I go through a ton of RSS feeds, sourced from specific blogs that I follow as well as …

OBIEE performance - get your database sweating

Just because something produces the correct numbers on the report, it doesn’t mean you can stop there. How you are producing those numbers …

When is a bug not a bug? When it’s a “design decision”

Last month I wrote about a problem that Informatica as part of OBIA was causing us, wherein an expired database account would bring Oracle down by …

RTFM? But where TF is the FM? >> Offline searchable OBIEE 11g documentation

I’m a geek. I like understanding things in their absolute entirety. It frustrates me to have to make presumptions or assumptions about …

Oracle Support Blog back online, kinda.

After it was ripped down last week, Chris Warticki’s blog is back online, albeit with the last posting redirecting visitors to a new location on …

#Fail: My Oracle Support

Metalink was retired this weekend and made way for the new My Oracle Support system. It didn’t go as smoothly as it could have done. This post …

The state of OBIEE on the web

An advance footnote I’ll start this by saying why I think things are how they are, and then I’ll get to the meat of my article. OBIEE in …

OBIA grumble

I’m starting on an upgrade from OBIA 7.9.5 to 7.9.6 and wading through the two main docs: 7.9.6 Upgrade guide 7.9.6 Installation guide It would …

OTN forum rant

I read and post a bit on the OBIEE and OBIA OTN forums. The noise ratio isn’t too bad, but a few things really get my goat: Not responding to …