Today I received two boxes, containing 48 books of
The Performance Management Revolution by Howard Dresner
These books have been kindly donated by Duncan Fitter, UK Business Development Director at Oracle.
I will be distributing these books to my MSc Data Mining students over the next week.
Thanks Duncan and Oracle
The OUG BI SIG meetings you can book your place with the UKOUG.
Venue Address - Dublin:
Oracle Block H, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3
Venue Address - Belfast:
The Mount Conference Center, 2 Woodstock Link, Belfast BT6 8DD
For questions about logistics please contact the marketing team on marketing-ie_ie@oracle.com
If you have any question about the content please contact: mina.sagha.zadeh@oracle.com
If you know of any other events that are not listed, let me know and I’ll update the list
At Oracle Open World it was announced the new Exalytics Business Intelligence machine.
The Oracle white paper on Exalytics can be found here.
From page 10 onwards we get some images of what we can get out of this machine.
Oracle Open World has a huge number of sessions commencing on Sunday and run until Thursday. To help attendees and non-attendees work out what sessions are available you can work your way through the schedule builder.
This can be a bit difficult to find the sessions that you might be interested in. So this year they have produced a set of Focus On documents that contain all the session related to particular areas.
The following are the available Focus On areas and documents:
Let me know if I have missed any Focus On documents and I will update the list.
Oh and don’t forget the Oracle Data Miner sessions.
If you are not able to attend OOW, you can check out the OOW Live channel on YouTube to watch the keynote and main session
http://www.youtube.com/Oracle?src=7308729&Act=99&pcode=WWMK11042185MPP039
I have a few Updates since I posted the blog on 14th Sept
1. The OBIEE VMS are now available on the Virtural Box Pre-Built VM webpage, as of 15th Sept. Thanks to @oraclenerd for requesting this
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vms-192663.html
2. Thanks to @rnm1978 for pointing out that the OBIEE VM is very resource intensive. The min. spec. given is not really enough. You really need more than 4GB for this VM to run.
3. The SampleApp that the OBIEE VM contains also has some examples of how Oracle Data Miner can be used in an application
I’ve recently come across an VM of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, which has the sample application already build and ready for you to use.
The VM files are available at the following link for download.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html
There are 2 files that you need to download to create the VM in VirtualBox. These are the VB Image key File (.ovf) and the VB Image Disk Files (.vmdk). The second file is ~25G, so it a while to download!
There is also a VB Image-Deployment Guide.
If you already have OBIEE installed and you don’t want to setup the VM, the setup files and data files are also available.
Over the past few days I’ve been trying to install Oracle Apex 4 on my 11.2g database. I say trying as I’ve made a number of attempts with no success. I started with the install instructions that come with Apex 4. Generally Oracle installs and install instructions have improved greatly since the 6, 7 and 8i versions.
I had high hopes of an easy install (as indicated by the various Oracle Apex books), but no matter what version of the install instructions I found there always seemed to be a step missing.
I finally came across one set of instructions that worked for me. The following steps are what I performed to get Apex 4 working.
1. Download Apex 4 from OTN to the directory
c:\apex_download
2. Unzip the Apex 4 download file. It will create the directory
c:\apex_download\Apex
3. Login into SQL*Plus as SYS with SYSDBA
4. Run the Apex 4 install script
c:\apex_download\Apex\apexins.sql SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/
where SYSAUX is the tablespace for Apex, TEMP is the temporary tablespace and /i/ is needed for possible upward compatability
This steps can take up to 30 minutes to run
5. Load the Apex images into the database.
- Got to the c:\apex_download\Apex directory.
- Log into SQL*Plus as SYS with SYSDBA
- run @apxldimg.sql
- You will be asked to enter the directory for the images. Make sure that you enter the correct directory, otherwise it will not work. In my case it is
c:\apex_download
6. Run the Configuration script. This will set up the XDB HTTP connection details.
@apxconf.sql
- enter the port number : 8080
- password
7. Unlock the required schema
SQL> ALTER USER ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
SQL > ALTER USER XDB ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
SQL > ALTER USER APEX_040000 ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
SQL > ALTER USER FLOWS_FILES ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
SQL > ALTER USER APEX_PUBLIC_USER ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
8. Open Apex. Open your browser and enter
there is a default workspace created
Workspace = internal
Username = admin
Password = admin
6. Change the password. The fist time you login you will be prompted to change the password. The new password needs to have a number, upper and lower case characters and one special character
7. To get the the Apex Admin page
For anyone starting out on data and database design there are lots and lots of books and articles to help get them started.
But for those people who have been doing database design for a while, it is always good to reflect on your approaches and techniques.
I recently attended a presentation by Steve Hoberman. If you ever get a chance to attend a data design presentation by him, I would highly recommend it.
He addition to his presentations and database design courses, he also writes for the website Information Management.
His series of articles can be found at
http://www.information-management.com/authors/32163.html
and his company website is
