Using this blog as offline memory. Just ignore this post, if you’re not up to Essbase ) If you’re configuring DataDirect ODBC drivers on *nix system, be aware of following: There are 2 versions of odbc.ini file, one in 32bit driver folder, other in 64. 64 essbase uses 64 drivers. You should copy required odbc.ini [...]
Since I’ve spent some time working with Oracle Business Intelligence last year, I think I’d write a simple comparison list of strengths\weaknesess of OraBI EE vs Cognos (see post on the same topic by Venkatakrishnan). All of this is imho, of course. Oracle BI EE Pro’s: 1) Aggregate navigation — ability to set up aggregate [...]
Yet another post on Essbase ) Internal ASO storage structure is a block box, so unlike BSO. So while Roske haven’t writen a book on ASO option, we have to wonder in the dark. The main description of ASO storage is “data is stored as key\value pairs”. This quote comes from ASO Tuning WhitePaper, the [...]
Hm, I guess it’s the time for a first big essbase-related post. Today we’ll talk about data loading in ASO cube. Those who’ve listened to our recent Oracle events presentations (russian TechForum 2008, BI Forum 2009), know that we’ve made a nice PoC project with SportMaster, consisting of loading their year’s worth of daily stock [...]
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