Borkur Steingrimsson

The other day I was doing some OWB work for a client. I had done some 60 mappings of the most basic kind, when I noticed that the mapping I had used as the basis (I use copy/paste a lot when working with OWB) had the 'Maximum number

This one doesn't quite relate to BI, but here is a function I hadn't seen before: new_time [http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions092.htm#SQLRF00671] . This function accepts three arguments: A date, the timezone this date should be considered

I must admit that as the last few weeks passed by, I haven't been paying a lot of attention to other things than the Oracle BI EE suite. My current customer is in the process of adopting the OBIEE suite and all effort has gone in to getting

It has been a little while since I posted anything. I have been a little busy at work as well as sitting through a 5 days training course on the Oracle BI EE suite. I must admit that the course was way too long and spread a wee thin for

Someone on OTN asked me to elaborate on a comment I made on a post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/05/13/obiee-and-row-level-security/] that Mark Rittman wrote last week. What I need to achieve here is to use an existing LDAP server to validate the credentials of the use

The UKOUG [http://www.ukoug.org/] is having a conference in December and the call for papers for the 2007 calendar has been open for a while now. I just finished submitting an abstract through their website. This is the first submission I make to such a big conference so

I had never really paid much attention to Technorati before. Seems like a quick way to find blogs just about anything. Now I have a profile there. Technorati Profile

I was trying to find out more about the new version of OBI EE [http://www.be-ice.eu/2007/04/25/oracle-bi-ee-101321-is-out/] on Metalink [http://metalink.oracle.com]. If you try to find a patch or update, then you will not find it in the "Product or Family"

Just noticed on OTN that a new version of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is out. The full version number is 10.1.3.2.1 (one step from the previous Maui release 10.1.3.2). My guess is that this is just a platform availability release with

The new Ubuntu [http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/] 7.04 (feisty fawn) is out. I used the built-in upgrade facilities to get the new release. After 2-3 failed attempts to get the full upgrade started, I finally got the pleasure of watching the download progress bar telling me that I

Seems that the Oracle Forums have finally come to their senses and allowed changing the watch/notification email address. Hurray for them! I have had the same email addy stuck in there since I signed up back in 2000. I haven't had access to the mailbox in 4

This is a strange one. The service INI file (nqsconfig.ini) for the OBIEE does suggest that the server can handle more than one repository at a time. In fact, if you do add another repository to the configuration file, that file must be a valid repository as well. Otherwise

I finished banging Beryl in to my newly installed Ubuntu box last night. I run a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10. The mix of IDE and SATA disks made Grub gag a bit but it all went ok in the end. I had previously installed Fedora Core

Well, spring is here. Well, not exactly. The date has arrived but in sunny Belgium, we seem to have missed the whole event. It actually snowed today as we were enjoying our "Bring a plate" lunch, followed by the usual drinks (and this time even beer). These team-building