If you’ve read my previous postings on how OWB11gR2 support access to non-Oracle databases, and allows you to create mappings that use non-Oracle sources and targets, you may we wondering how Oracle data sources fit in to this, and the Oracle traditional “database resident” mappings that you normally create can be used alongside them. In [...]
In the first three parts of this series, I gave an overview of the new 7.9.5.2 release of the Oracle BI Applications, went through how the technology differs now that it uses Oracle Data Integrator rather than Informatica, and then went through what you need to do to perform an initial load and debug failed [...]
In the past couple of postings (here, here), I’ve gone through an introduction to the new BI Apps 7.9.5.2 release and talked about how the introduction of ODI has altered much of the technology underneath it. In today’s posting I’ll go through how data is loaded into the BI Apps data warehouse, and how you [...]
I have recently been working with two of our key OLAP experts (Stuart Bunby and Kevin Lancaster) helping deliver various OLAP workshops. Based on the questions and discussions I had with many people during this years OpenWorld I think it might be useful to share some of information we put together for those workshops via [...]
This came up on the TopLink Forum last week but for those who don’t read all the postings I thought I’d repeat the information here. The question was whether it’s possible to have read-only Entities in JPA. This isn’t in the spec but is possible in TopLink Essentials. You do it by calling the setReadOnly() [...]
Hi everyoneThe long and eagerly awaited release of Discoverer 11g has just been announced by Oracle and it is available for download right now. This new version of Discoverer is now part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Here is a (link) to the software download. Scroll down to the section entitled Portal, Forms, reports and [...]
I am very pleased to announce that Oracle have released the eagerly awaited cumulative patch 4 for Discoverer 10.1.2.3 (patch number 7595032). When compared to CP2, almost 80 bugs have been fixed including the bug that was preventing usres from logging in correctly after applying CP3 (see here). So far this has been released for [...]
Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]
Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]
You can read the 18+ blog postings covering all of the recent discussions about how dead or not-dead meta-directories really are. Or, you can read Ian’s post that summarizes this whole discussion and save those three hours to line-wait for your iPhone 3G. As for his conclusions: 1. Use the right tool for the job [...]