by Gianni Ceresa | 30 September 2017 | Infrastructure
I already wrote about Docker and OBIEE in Docker in relation to my OBIEE Docker image I published on GitHub. As it isn’t always obvious to get started with it, mainly if aren’t familiar with Docker, I decided to write this post which will cover from A to Z...
by Gianni Ceresa | 12 July 2017 | Graphs
Not long ago I wrote a quick introduction on PGX, Parallel Graph AnalytiX, the Oracle graph solution. You can find it here: PGX – Parallel Graph AnalytiX : the Oracle graph analysis brain. To use and interact with this graph engine you will need a client or a...
by Gianni Ceresa | 26 June 2017 | Graphs
Graph databases: who hasn’t heard, so far, these words? The newest pretty shiny tool for data scientist, the latest addition to the analytical toolbox after big data solutions few years ago. So far it seems to still be a niche solution, too new to be widely...
by Gianni Ceresa | 29 May 2017 | Quick tips
Connection pools, these little basic, but mandatory, things we all have in our RPD. For normal usage we generally do not really pay attention to it: enter a host, username and password and done, you are connected to the database and move forward to other tasks. But...
by Gianni Ceresa | 24 May 2017 | Under the hood
Some time ago I uploaded on GitHub the code to build Docker images for OBIEE 12c (all the current 3 releases). In the meantime, as Docker is now my main (and only with the exception of Sample Applications) way to execute OBIEE, I improved and fixed things around the...
by Gianni Ceresa | 27 February 2017 | Under the hood
Some weeks ago I wrote about how to deploy a custom style in OBIEE 12c by using an EAR file. At that time, I said the EAR file was, for me, a better solution compared to the old classic analyticsRes shared folder as during a quick test I saw lot of 404 Not found...
by Gianni Ceresa | 17 January 2017 | Under the hood
While I was cropping a screenshot for the previous post about Time Series functions in OBIEE I discovered something new in OBIEE 12c I completely missed till now. In every logical level of a time dimension hierarchy (except for the grand total level) there is an extra...
by Gianni Ceresa | 17 January 2017 | Under the hood
Nothing better than a “light” topic as warm-up to start the new year : OBIEE Time Series functions (inspired by a thread on OTN forum of few days ago). Actually, it was a “light” topic and started growing while writing … The thread on OTN...
