Author: Raymond de Vries
				
										
									
					
							
						
				Last week I noticed that the long awaited Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One was available on e-delivery download site and on Monday (25 June 2007) Oracle officially announced …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Oracle recently released its official version of the Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition – 10gR3 (10.1.3.2.0 – also known as the Maui release). This version is based on the …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Last week I was invited by Cognos Netherlands to an Infoseminar Cognos 8 BI. I know that Cognos 8 has been in the market since 2005 but I have …			
					
								
												
									
					
				When creating a Cube in OWB10g R2 one has the possibility to define aggregations to be performed for the Dimensions that the cube references. When defining the aggregations you …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				If you change the password of the repository owner in Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, the Control Center Service will fail to start. It is unusual that Oracle …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Recently I had to extract data from 5 Access databases and 4 Excel files and merge the data into an Oracle table. One method was to export the data from Access to Oracle via …			
					
								
												
									
					
				After a long delay OWB 10g R2 (previously known as Paris) has finally been released for production and can be downloaded from OTN. OWB 10g R2 will not be …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				Oracle recently released its first production version of a graphical database development tool called “SQL Developer†(version 1.0) – formerly project Raptor. If you have ever worked with Oracle …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				Oracle’s latest database release 10g R2 does not support OWB (Oracle Warehouse Builder). All OWB’s up to and including the current version 10.1.0.3 are not certified by Oracle 10g …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				XSL – the basics This document explains what XSL is and how it could be used. It only covers the basics of XSL but with these basics it will …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				Did you recently try to start your OWB client and found that it suddenly did not want to start? Well you’re not the only one. All OWB users around …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				We had a client that was having performance problems with one of their queries and it was rewarding to be able to solve the problem with knowledge recently gained …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				One of our clients was having performance problems with one of their queries and it was rewarding to be able to solve the problem with knowledge recently gained at …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				I recently witnessed a developer recompiling his schema’s INVALID objects by selecting all the invalid objects from the user_objects table and compiling them. This he had to do 3 …