My first presentation - help!
I’m doing my first ever conference presentation next month at the 2010 Rittman Mead BI Forum. My presentation is called Performance Testing …
OBIEE 11g tidbit - XUDML support
Spotted this when trawling through My Oracle Support. It’s pretty common knowledge anyway amongst people already familiar with hacking around …
Securing OBIEE Systems Management JMX for remote access
JMX OBIEE’s Systems Management functionality exposes performance counters and the application’s configuration options through Java MBeans …
Who’s been at the cookie jar? EBS-BI authentication and Load Balancers
We hit a very interesting problem in our Production environment recently. We’d made no changes for a long time to the configuration, but all of …
Oracle Support blog no more
A sad little passing last week, of the Oracle Support Blog and related tweets by Chris Warticki. Last week Chris posted this comment on twitter …
Exadata V2 POC numbers
I stumbled across this blog posting recently, and am reposting the link here as I’ve seen no mention of it elsewhere. This surprised me as with …
Identify your OBIEE users by setting Client ID in Oracle connection
You get a call from your friendly DBA. He says the production database is up the spout, and it’s “that bee eye thingumy causing it”. …
How to resolve “[nQSError: 12002] Socket communication error at call=: (Number=-1) Unknown”
This error caught me out today. I was building a Linux VM to do some work on, and for the life of me couldn’t get the OBIEE Admin Tool to …
libnnz10.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
Quick post as the snow’s coming down and I wanna go home … I’ve been working on building a VM based on OEL5.4 and OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1. …
Running the OBIEE admin tool on Unix
Mucho kudos to Borkur Steingrimsson for getting the OBIEE admin tool working on Unix!
CAF
Very interesting post by Kevin McGinley about CAF here: CAF = Migration Utility? Use Caution! It articulates better than I ever could reasons against …
Troubleshooting Presentation Services / analytics connectivity
Short but sweet this one - a way of troubleshooting connectivity problems between analytics (the Presentation Services Plug-in, either j2ee servlet or …
UKOUG TEBS 2009
This was my first UKOUG TEBS, in fact my first conference I’d ever attended! I was quite unsure what to expect, but three days later I can …
OBIEE application servers, now and future
Oracle have published an interesting doc 968223.1, entitled “Enterprise Deployment of Oracle BI EE on OC4J and App Servers”. It details …
SoOotW and sweep
(Sorry for the lame title, but it gives me an excuse to put this picture in :) ) I was really pleased by the response I got from my posting about The …
Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems
A very interesting new PDF from Sun on deploying OBIEE has been published, with discussions on architecture, performance and best practice. This Sun …
OBIEE clustering - specifying multiple Presentation Services from Presentation Services Plug-in
Introduction Whilst the BI Cluster Controller takes care nicely of clustering and failover for BI Server (nqsserver), we have to do more to ensure …
Advanced Googling for OBIEE information
Want to find all PDFs from Oracle about OBIEE? There’s some interesting ones that this turned up on Oracle’s public FTP. In particular: BI …
CAF installation video
Christian Screen has done a nice video explaining the CAF installation, and has promised a deep-dive followup which I’m looking forward to. …
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 …