Raymond de Vries, Author at AMIS Oracle and Java Blog

Data Warehousing & BI

June 27, 2007 0 Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One – now available.

Last week I noticed that the long awaited Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One was available on e-delivery download site…

Oracle

April 16, 2007 1 Oracle BI Suite EE 10gR3 – My first encounter

Oracle recently released its official version of the Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition – 10gR3 (10.1.3.2.0 – also known as…

March 25, 2007 5 Cognos 8 BI or Oracle BI EE (Siebel Analytics) – not a difficult choice

Last week I was invited by Cognos Netherlands to an Infoseminar Cognos 8 BI. I know that Cognos 8 has…

November 7, 2006 2 When creating Cubes in OWB10g R2, are materialized views automatically created as well?

When creating a Cube in OWB10g R2 one has the possibility to define aggregations to be performed for the Dimensions…

October 13, 2006 3 OWB 10g R2Changing the repositories password disables the Control Center

If you change the password of the repository owner in Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, the Control Center Service…

Data Warehousing & BI

August 4, 2006 5 Using an Oracle database link to connect to Excel

Recently I had to extract data from 5 Access databases and 4 Excel files and merge the data into an Oracle table.…

Data Warehousing & BI

May 24, 2006 2 The long awaited Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g R2 is now available

After a long delay OWB 10g R2 (previously known as Paris) has finally been released for production and can be…

March 31, 2006 5 Oracle introduces free database development tool

Oracle recently released its first production version of a graphical database development tool called â€œSQL Developerâ€ (version 1.0) â€“ formerly…

Data Warehousing & BI

September 11, 2005 4 Oracle 10g R2 does not support Oracle Warehouse Builder.

Oracleâ€™s latest database release 10g R2 does not support OWB (Oracle Warehouse Builder). All OWBâ€™s up to and including the…

August 15, 2005 1 XSL – The basics

XSL â€“ the basics This document explains what XSL is and how it could be used. It only covers the…

August 1, 2005 2 Oracle Warehouse Builder suddenly stops working?

Did you recently try to start your OWB client and found that it suddenly did not want to start? Well…

July 3, 2005 0 Using a function-based index to get fast access to NULL table columns

We had a client that was having performance problems with one of their queries and it was rewarding to be…

June 17, 2005 0 Using a function-based index to get fast access to NULL table columns

One of our clients was having performance problems with one of their queries and it was rewarding to be able…

April 11, 2005 3 Recompiling invalid objects

I recently witnessed a developer recompiling his schemaâ€™s INVALID objects by selecting all the invalid objects from the user_objects table…

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