Troubleshooting OBIEE and ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier
A frequent question on the OTN OBIEE forum is how to fix this error: [nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 12154, message: ORA-12154: TNS:could not …
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 …
New OBIEE blogs
Two new blogs of note : Shiv Bharti’s Blog Debashis’s OBIEE Blog Both are well worth a read & following.
BI Server hung - nQSError 14054 / 15001 / 23005
Watch out if you are using init blocks in your RPD. We hit a bug (#9019374) recently that caused BI Server (10.1.3.4) to hang. The init block in …
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 …
New OBIEE benchmark - 50,000 users
A new OBIEE benchmark has been published by Oracle. It’s on the same hardware as August’s benchmark - Sun T5440s. Anyone would think that …
Usage Tracking - only half the story …
OBIEE comes with a very useful usage tracking feature. For information about it and how to set it up see these links: …
OBIEE and HP Performance Center (a.k.a. LoadRunner) - Notes
This is a supplemental post to this one describing how to set up a VUser in LoadRunner to test OBIEE. It’s various notes that I made during the …
Performance testing OBIEE using HP Performance Center (a.k.a. LoadRunner)
My two earlier posts (here and here) detail the difficulties I had with LoadRunner (now called HP Performance Center). After a bit of a break along …
Collated OBIEE benchmarks
(Updated 12th Oct 09) Here’s a list of the OBIEE benchmark documents published by Oracle: BenchmarkDateSource document1 - IBM System …
OBIEE benchmarks
Here’s a list of the OBIEE benchmark documents published by Oracle: 28,000 User Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server running Solaris …
OBIEE cluster controller failover in action
Production cluster is 2x BI Server and 2x Presentation Services, with a BIG-IP F5 load balancer on the front. Symptoms Users started reporting slow …
OBIEE on Opera 10 / IE 7 / FF 3.5 / Chrome 4
A new version of the web browser Opera was released recently. Several years ago I used Opera and may even have paid for it IIRC. Then Firefox came …
AdminTool.exe /command
There’s an undocumented feature in AdminTool.exe that you can use the /command switch with a text file containing scripted commands to make …
RSS feeds for OBIEE, including del.icio.us obiee tags
Another way of keeping up with what’s going on in the obiee world, add this RSS feed of del.icio.us obiee tags to your reader. It may be less …
CAF troubles
Following the Oracle CAF tutorial here, I got to Cloning Answers Requests section and then got stuck. I’d set up my environment exactly the same …
Metalink 3 RIP
This weekend just gone Metalink3 went to the digital dustbin. In principle this is a Good Thing, as multiple support websites for a single company is …
Multiple RPDs on one server - Part 1 - the BI Server
Introduction In this article I plan to get samplesales and paint repositories hosted on a single server, using one BI Server instance and two …
Multiple RPDs on one server - Part 2 - Presentation Services
Introduction In this article I plan to get sample and paint repositories hosted on a single server, using one BI Server instance and two Presentation …
OBIEE error/message code reference
For some reason Oracle haven’t put out a 10.x version of the error & message codes reference guide for OBIEE, but the previous version for …