Tips and Techniques

Migrating Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle BI Cloud Service – Favorites not working? Can’t stop seeing the Product Tour? Access denied for user to path?

Jonathan Clark May 17, 2017

When working with an Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud or Oracle Analytics Cloud instance that has been migrated from one environment to another, your users may encounter an access denied for user to path error when

How to find Oracle DVD log files

Dan Vlamis March 7, 2017

Hey, folks, I ran into a DVD error message that referenced a log and thought I would share where I found the log file in case others were wondering this. Here is the error message

Formatting SQL with Notepad++

Vlamis Staff November 10, 2016

If you have ever had to format SQL in various editors of various flavors you most likely have experienced severe frustration at the lack of ability to apply personal formatting needs to SQL. I experienced

Part 2 – Database

Vlamis Staff September 27, 2016

This is the second in a series of posts on Maps in OBIEE. Part 1 – Map Basics is here. In the database geometry objects are stored in a special column type called SDO_GEOMETRY that

Part 1 – Map Basics

Vlamis Staff September 12, 2016

This is the first in a series of posts on Maps in OBIEE. Part 2 – Database is here. Many people mistakenly believe that implementing map views in Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) is difficult, requires

Controlling permissions in OBIEE and DV

Dan Vlamis July 29, 2016

I was asked recently about permissions of uploaded data in OBIEE and Data Visualization. (New) in version 12.2.1.1 I am able control who gets to see the data I upload via the Permissions tab of

Embedding Data Visualizations from VA in OBIEE Dashboards

Dan Vlamis July 20, 2016

As previously mentioned, we had a huge turnout for my presentation on What’s New in OBIEE 12.2.1.1. Two questions that came up are: How do I integrate VA content into an OBIEE dashboard? Can I

Leveraging the OBIEE 12c Baseline Validation Tool.

Vlamis Staff February 25, 2016

Oracle came out with an awesome tool for regressing testing and verification of OBIEE lifecycle and migration. This is the Baseline Validation Tool (BVT). This is a command line tool that is governed by an

Analytic Views Preview

Mike Caskey February 9, 2016

We got the first insight on Analytic Views at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Bud Endress presented and described how Analytic Views in a future release of the Oracle Database will make it MUCH easier to create

2-Minute Tech Tip on Data Visualization for OBIEE 11g Posted

Dan Vlamis October 11, 2014

Thanks, Bob Rhubart, for posting the 2-minute tech tip on Data Visualization for Oracle BI 11g. This is a preview of Tim and my Oracle Press book with the same title. You can see more

BI Admin Tool Local Install RPD Development with Oracle OLAP

Dan Vlamis May 26, 2011

For those that saw my presentation Oracle BI 11.1.1.5 Released – Changes and New Features yesterday, you may have noticed that I didn’t actually import Oracle OLAP metadata. I was working with a local install

BIWA Techcast – Data Visualization with OBIEE 11g

Dan Vlamis July 12, 2010