Security issue on OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1, 11.1.1.3
July’s Critical Patch Update from Oracle includes CVE-2011-2241, which affects OBIEE versions 10.1.3.4.1 and 11.1.1.3. No details of the exploit …
OBIEE Systems Management - dodgy counter behaviour
Over the last few months I’ve been doing a lot of exploring of OBIEE Systems Management data, covered in a mini-series of blog posts, Collecting …
Materialised Views - PCT Partition Truncation
I’ve been doing some work recently that involved the use of Materialised Views on Oracle 11g (11.1.0.7), particularly around PCT refresh. There …
Misbehaving Informatica kills Oracle
This problem, which in essence is bad behaviour from Informatica bringing down Oracle, is a good illustration of unintended consequences of an …
Critical Patch Update - OBIEE vuln CVE-2009-1990
October’s Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory has been released. There are two vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-1999, CVE-2009-1990) listed under …
Heads up - Critical Patch Update affecting OBIEE
The Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement for October has been published. The pre-release is advance notice of the affected software prior to …
OBIA upgrade 7.9.5 to 7.9.6 - first thoughts
We’re upgrading from OBIA 7.9.5 (Financials - GL) to OBIA 7.9.6. Our reasons are for support (7.9.5 does not support Oracle 11g) and minor …
sawserver charts crash
By a strange co-incidence after following this thread on OTN forums about a BI crash and struggling to understand the actual problem, I think …