Start a Mapping or Process Flow from OWB Browser

Basically, we start a Mapping or Process Flow from Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Design Client. But actually we can also start a Mapping or Process Flow from OWB Browser. This paper will introduce the Start Report first and then introduce how to start/rerun a Mapping or Process Flow from OWB Browser. Start Report Start Report [...]

Summer R & R

Many of us take summer vacations to indulge in some R&R. Usually, we mean “rest and relaxation” by the abbreviation. R&R can also mean “reading and reruns” for those of us of the couch potato persuasion. I’ve done a lot of reading this summer (more on that below) and on those evenings when I can’t [...]

The Cluster said: "I forbid you to migrate SYSTEM tablespace to local"

Introducing Nitin Ramesh In this article, I would like to introduce Nitin Ramesh, an associate consultant with Oracle GSD India, Bangalore. This is the first time that I am having another Oracle Employee and co-worker publish articles on this blog, and I am excited. We solve many problems every for our ~35 customers on a [...]

Yum Yum, Fresh RPMs.

While I was over on Sergio’s blog looking at the oracle-validated-rpm from a comment by Avi on my last blog entry, I saw another post that I think needs more publicity New Oracle Public Yum Server If you’re like me and have a bunch of machines that you muck around on and don’t want to [...]

SQL Developer 2.1: Early Adopter introduces PL/SQL Unit Testing

SQL Developer 2.1 early adopter is now available for download from OTN. Go to the main SQL Developer pages on OTN for more details and the links to the download site. The announcement includes links to a number of documents that you should skim through before you start. An early adopter is your opportunity to [...]

Oh No! My BI Server has Core Dumped!

As well as supporting client’s development teams, we often come in and help support teams in client organizations who are taking on Oracle BI and EPM Suite. One such client I was working with this week wanted me to help them with an OBIEE diagnosis checklist, where their staff could follow a series of steps [...]

Swingbench Trace Analyzer

So I haven’t released much in the way of an update to swingbench lately mainly because work has been so busy… However between meetings I put together a little program that parses Oracle trace files. Now I know TKProf does a fine job of this but I’ve never been really comfortable with having to continually [...]