Friday, February 24, 2012

Oracle DB 11g Editions

If you ever wondered which is the most appropriate Oracle DB you should be on, then here is where you could find this info:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/product-editions-066501.html

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Upgrade RPD from 10g to 11g

on Windows: Command Line prompt: cmd>SET ORACLE_INSTANCE=C:\oracle\bi\instances\instance1\
   where C:\oracle\bi is your middleware home.
cmd>C:\oracle\bi\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\server\bin\obieerpdmigrateutil.exe -I C:\TEMP\demo10g.rpd -O C:\TEMP\demo11g.rpd -L C:\TEMP\demo11g.ldif -U Administrator
 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

New Release

Finally I'm at pace with the news: OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 is out and can be downloaded from
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html
This release delivers a BI platform specially designed to leverage:
• Oracle Exalytics hardware’s large memory, processors, concurrency, and other hardware features and system configurations.
• Enhancements to Times-Ten for Exalytics for analytical processing at in-memory speeds
• Dynamic user interface enhancements that complement large amounts of data to present business information in meaningful and compelling ways
• A new BI Server Summary Advisor for Exalytics for aggregate generation and persistence
• Essbase memory usage optimizations and concurrency improvements for Exalytics to deliver efficient distribution of processing
• BI Publisher performance, lifecycle, workflow and report creation enhancements
• New and enhanced Scorecard views and BI Mobile improvements
• Numerous Security, Management/Diagnostic and Lifecycle enhancements
• Certified BI and EPM Applications on Exalytics

  
The good news is that this release can be used with BIA 7.9.6.3
- Enjoy!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I'm still here..

It's been so long since I haven't posted anything on my BI blog but hopefully I'm gonna fix this somehow. I've been side tracked by working on other projects but today I had a go on my virtual's machine BI and I have faced something that people were blogging /emailing about for weeks now: Firefox 10 does not work with OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0

Workaround:
1) Easiest is to revert to a previous version of Firefox.
2 )  Keep Firefox 10
- Type "about:config" into an address bar
- Right-click in the window and select New/String
- Name: "general.useragent.override"
- Value: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0"
- Refresh OBIEE login screen.. and tut-tut! it works

Solution
Oracle seems to have released a patch for this: patch 13564003