With some help from Bryan, I have uncovered a way of being able to debug or at least log what BIServer is doing when BIP sends it a query request. This is not for those of you querying the database directly but if you are using the BIServer and its datamodel to fetch data for [...]
Ever heard of a company called Next Jump? Me neither until I read this piece in the New York Times (h/t TechCrunch) last week. Next Jump had stayed stealth for 15 years, raising $45 million in venture money and hiring 225 people, all the while signing 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers. Not too [...]
We apologize for our brief hiatus from blogging. We’ve been busy working on improvements to the optimizer. In 10gR2, we introduced a new transformation, table elimination (alternately called “join elimination”), which removes redundant tables from a query. A table is redundant if its columns are only referenced to in join predicates, and it is guaranteed [...]