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Webinar: Seamless Conversations with your Database via Oracle Digital Assistant's SQL Dialogs Capability

We are hosting a live webinar focussed on Oracle Digital Assistant's SQL Dialog feature - that allows users to convert their natural language input into SQL queries, and fetch database output, without the hurdles of creating separate intents or utterances or any custom components. The session will demonstrate

Using ODI Java SDK with Groovy and Scala

Scripting for ODI Repository If you need to create a quick script that manipulates ODI Repository objects, Groovy is the programming language of choice. You can run Groovy scripts from within ODI Studio, which offers two major advantages: * Direct access to the odiInstance object: This object represents the current ODI

APEX

Oracle APEX - replacing OAS/OAC/OBI write-back

In today's fast-paced business environment, organisations need powerful and flexible tools to make informed decisions quickly. Oracle Analytics (OAC/OAS), once Business Intelligence (OBI), has long been a reliable choice for business intelligence and analytics. However, as technology evolves, so do the requirements of businesses. One such requirement

The Art of the Deployment Pipeline

For many months now I have been working with one of our clients designing and implementing deployment pipelines. Given that this topic is currently close to my heart and has been the source of many sleepless nights, it seems very apt to share some thoughts as a blog! In this

Oracle Analytics

Restore Deliveries Options in Oracle Analytics Cloud

The November 2023 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud came out a few weeks ago, and it includes enhanced Restore Deliveries options which give you greater flexibility when restoring agents on your Oracle Analytics Cloud instances. For instance, you can enable delivery schedules immediately after restoration, eliminating the need for manual

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Modern Data Platforms, A Beast of Tech that you can feed after midnight!

You look like someone who needs a Data Solution, one that fulfils your data needs you haven't even thought up yet to ensure that your Mogwai - I mean stakeholders remain fun and happy and don't turn into angry data deprived Gremlins. There are many choices

GenAI

Generative AI: The do-it-all Friend

This revolutionary technology, a form of artificial intelligence, can create a whole range of diverse content like text, images, audio, and synthetic data. Although AI's roots trace back to the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project, it was the introduction of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in 2014 that enabled

Rittman Mead 2023 Highlights

2023 has been an exciting year for Rittman Mead. We have continued to develop our expertise, attaining 62 new certifications across the company. Rittman Mead is also now recognised for achieving Service Expertise in Cloud Service Solution Expertise: OCI Migration. Webinar Highlights Our commitment to knowledge sharing saw us host

Tip Tuesday

Our Top Tips From 2023

In 2023, we started sharing weekly tips to develop your skills across areas including analytics, data and technology. Make sure you follow our LinkedIn page so you never miss a Tip Tuesday. Tip 1 | How to prepare data for analysis? Preparing the data is one of the most important stages

Oracle Analytics

Handling Fine-Grained Data Visualization Permissions in Oracle Analytics Cloud

The November 2023 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud came out a few weeks ago, and it includes a new feature to handle permissions at a finer grain than previously possible in Data Visualization. Administrators are no longer forced to choose between granting their users excessive power, or totally disabling access

data science

4 Behaviours Separating Good Data Science From Great Data Science

For the interest of data scientists and data owners looking to improve their approach to data science projects, this post looks at a few ways we can take good data science practices and elevate them to great ones. Data science, at its heart, is a methodology for extracting insights and

machine learning

Tip Tuesday: Creating OML Notebooks from Example Templates

Oracle OML offers a browser-based Machine Learning Interface on top of an ATP or ADW. Within OML there are many example templates Oracle have created to get you started on many different topics. You can look inside these template notebooks by clicking on the title, however, this will only show

APEX

Oracle APEX - IG Options You Might Not Know About

Following up on our LinkedIn poll regarding the next enhancement the community would like to see in our APEX Component Designer, we are currently working on incorporating the highly requested Interactive Grid feature. Throughout my research, I've uncovered some valuable Interactive Grid features that could prove very handy.

RPD

Using a Simple Python Script to Mass-Produce RPD Objects

Introduction Doing repetitive tasks as a developer can be the bain of your existence, sometimes you get a ticket on a project where you have one of two options; Either bite the bullet and create those 50 aliases for the time dimension, logical tables, and hierarchies…. or come up with

APEX

Oracle APEX - Plug-ins Explained

Plug-ins enable you to extend your APEX applications with custom functionality that is not available natively in the platform. Oracle APEX plug-ins are add-ons that extend the functionality of the popular low-code application platform. They allow developers to easily incorporate additional features and functionality into their APEX applications in a

Oracle Digital Assistant

Oracle Digital Assistant – Deep Dive into Skill Development: Part 1

With the developed understanding of the fundamentals of Oracle Digital Assistants in the very first blog of ODA series (can be found here, if you missed it), it’s now time to take a deep dive into Skill development. My attempt would be to take you through the basic steps

OAC

Oracle Analytics Cloud November 2023 Update: What's New?

The November 2023 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud came out a few days ago and in this article, I'm going to have a look at the features it includes. If you are also interested in a comprehensive list of the defects fixed by the update, please refer to

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Oracle Autonomous Database Select AI

In this article, I am going to provide a quick overview of Autonomous Database Select AI, a new tool available on Oracle ADB that enables users to query the database using natural language. Select AI can: * Take a natural language prompt and execute SQL returning the required data; * Take a

oracle machine learning

Introduction to Oracle Machine Learning on ADB

Oracle Machine Learning or OML is a collaborative user interface that enables data scientists to perform machine learning within the Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB). OML is packaged with Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) meaning if you already have Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse or Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing you could start using

webinar

Webinar: Generative AI & Oracle Digital Assistant

We are hosting an introductory webinar to Oracle Digital Assistant, highlighting how it positions itself strongly as a byproduct of the Generative AI technological advances, its benefits and high-level applications. This webinar will primarily focus on its building blocks and demonstrate how to create skills, intents, entities, train utterances and

APEX

Oracle APEX - Implementing Role-Based Access with Social Login

In our last blog about Social Sign in, we detailed how APEX can be configured to use a 3rd party federated identify provider, such as Google, to handle the authentication process. Using an Identity Provider (IdP) for authentication may be useful for several reasons; delegating security to a trusted supplier,

Oracle Digital Assistant

Oracle Digital Assistant – A Powerful Choice

We are fortunate to be living in an era of disruptive technology innovations. After the advent of the Internet and Personal Computers, Generative AI has the potential to redefine the world in every aspect you can think of. What we see now, is just the beginning of a massive revolution

Analytics Publisher

Analytics Publisher - Dynamic Graphs in Excel Templates

Analytics Publisher as a development tool has been around a few years now, in various guises, and there is a fair amount of help and information available for it out on the web. I've used it to develop quite a few reports for bespoke systems, E-Business Suite applications

odi

Assessing the Performance of Looping ODI Package Tasks

Our SQL query extracts data from ODI Repository log tables and can be used to find performance bottlenecks in ODI Load Plans that execute Packages with loops by identifying the most time-consuming Package tasks. ODI Packages often use loops, especially to load CSV files or query APIs that have limits

APEX

Oracle APEX - Debugging a Social Login

Integrating social login within Oracle APEX offers remarkable convenience. I've had the privilege of configuring various Identity Providers (IdP), such as Azure AD, Google, Oracle IDCS, PING, and more. Generally, the setup process is quite smooth, and authentication functions seamlessly. However, the real challenge arises when things don&