Oracle - tnsping - Message 3513 not found; product=NETWORK; facility=TNS
Short note to record this, as Google drew no hits on it. Windows XP machine with existing Oracle 11.1 client installation, all working fine. Installed …
Oracle XE 11gR2 installation - “OracleXEService should not be installed already”
Oracle XE 11gR2 beta has just been released, some details here and download here. It’s not a great deal of use for sandboxing DWH-specific …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Querying SQL Server from OBIEE running on Unix
A question that pops up on the OBIEE OTN forum quite often is how to use non-Oracle databases like MS SQL Server when the OBIEE server is running on a …
OBIEE Windows PerfMon counters
Yet another way to access the BI Management data discussed here - through Windows’ PerfMon tool. This will only work for installations where …
psservice - Windows command line goodness!
Our main servers are Unix and I’m as happy as a pig in muck at the command line, so when I’m working on Windows (where I’ve got a …