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 …
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 …
Changing LDAP settings in an OBIEE RPD with UDML
A chap called Kevin posted a comment on a previous posting of mine asking did you ever come across anything that could be used to change the LDAP …
Instrumenting OBIEE for tracing Oracle DB calls
Cary Millsap recently published a paper “Mastering Performance with Extended SQL Trace” describing how to use Oracle trace to assist with …
Adding OBIEE monitoring graphs into OAS
Introduction This is the third part of three detailed articles making up a mini-series about OBIEE monitoring. It demonstrates how to capture OBIEE …
Charting OBIEE performance data with gnuplot
Introduction This is the second part of three detailed articles making up a mini-series about OBIEE monitoring. It demonstrates how to capture OBIEE …
Collecting OBIEE systems management data with jmx
Introduction This is the first part of three detailed articles making up a mini-series about OBIEE monitoring. It demonstrates how to capture OBIEE …
OBIEE monitoring
Those of you who read my blog regularly may have noticed I have a slight obsession with the OBIEE systems management capability which is exposed …
OBIEE 10g - javahost hang
Hot on the heels of one problem, another has just reared its head. Users started reporting an error with reports that included charts: [sourcecode] …
Troubleshooting OBIEE - LDAP (ADSI) authentication
They say about travelling that it’s the journey and not the destination, and the same is true with this problem we hit during a deployment to …
A Poor Man’s OBIEE EM/BI Management Pack
Folk from Yorkshire are tight, so the stereotype goes. So here’s a cheap-ass way to monitor OBIEE 10g using nothing but the OBIEE built-in …
Two excellent OBI presentations from Jeff McQuigg
Jeff McQuigg has posted two presentations that he gave at Openworld 2010 on his website here: http://greatobi.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/oow-presos/ …
awk - split a fixed width file into separate files named on content
More of a unix thing than DW/BI this post, but I have a beard so am semi-qualified…. The requirement was to improve the performance of some ODI …
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 …
Measuring real user response times for OBIEE
@alexgorbachev tweeted me recently after picking up my presentation on Performance Testing and OBIEE. His question got me thinking, and as ever the …
Scripts to extract information from OBIEE NQQuery.log
Here are a couple of little unix scripts that I wrote whilst developing my performance testing OBIEE method. They’re nothing particularly …
OBIEE 11g launch date - 7th July 2010
OBIEE 11g is going to be officially launched on 7th July (this year!) in London: Launch Event: Introducing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise …
Performance Testing and OBIEE
Here’s my presentation “Performance Testing and OBIEE” that I gave at the RittmanMead BI Forum 2010: Performance Testing and …
RittmanMead BI Forum 2010
I’ve just returned from the RittmanMead 2010 BI Forum which this year was at the Seattle Hotel in Brighton Marina. The event was limited to 50 …
Validating EBS-BI authentication, without BI
Troubleshooting EBS-BI integrated authentication can be a tiresome activity, so here’s a shortcut that might help. If you suspect the problem …