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This article is borrowed from one of the topics of my book (http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-apex-4-2-reporting/book) on Oracle APEX 4.2 reporting. I wish to talk about the process to engineering breadcrumbs of varying lengths in this article. Let me explain the motive with an example.


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The book is for free. All you need to do is contact us. We will then send you a PDF version of the book. All we ask you to do is to permanently link from your blog, website, Facebook etc. to our site.

Alternatively, you can buy the book on (more...)

Just a quick note to let you everyone know that the latest version of Endeca is available as a demo environment (hosted by Oracle).

The environment is hosted by Oracle and can be accessed with the credentials below.

URL: http://slc02oku.oracle.com:7101/eid/web
Userid = publicuser@oracle.com
Password = Admin123

Note: (more...)

As your data volumes increase, particularly as you evolve into the big data world, you will be start to see that your Oracle Data Mining scoring functions will start to take longer and longer.  To apply an Oracle Data Mining model to new data is a very quick process. (more...)

If you are brave enough to be using the early adopter releases of ODMr you may have run into the issue with your workflows not running.

When you go to run your workflow you will get the following window and nothing else happens.

To get passed this you will need (more...)

The UKOUG TECH13 conference is starting on Sunday and this year things a bit different. In previous years there was one big conference that covered (almost) everything and this conference had been in Birmingham.

This year Birmingham has been replaced by Manchester and the conference will focus on Database, Development (more...)

You may or may not know that I have been collecting Oracle Magazines. It all began back when I had my very first job as a graduate consultant with Oracle in Ireland. A few days ago I received a package that contained the following Oracle Magazines.  You will see (more...)

This past Friday, November 22nd, we completed our work on the newest version of the Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System and made Dodeca 6.6.0.4194 available for download from our website.  This blog entry is a sneak peek at some of the new features in version 6.6, as (more...)

If you work in the Essbase, Oracle EPM, or Oracle BI world, *the* place to be every June is the annual Kscope conference.  Registration is open for the next conference, Kscope14, coming next June in Seattle, WA.  If you are not currently a full ODTUG member, let me tell you (more...)

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Volume on BigData being the constant challenge, as an administrator, you will have to keep a tab on the data growth, at the same time you need to make sure there is spurge growth of unwanted objects or folders. Typically you would want to be worried about the (more...)

Over the past few days I've put together a list of Oracle User Group Conferences from around the World that will be on in 2014.

This list is not complete and I’m sure I have left out some very well known conferences.  If I have left a conference out (more...)

SQL Developer 4 Early Adaptor release 3 (EA3) was released just over a week ago. This EA3 release has over 500 bug or “feature” fixes since the EA2 release.

But there could be some new “features” introduced into the new EA3. This is the case with the Oracle Data Miner (more...)

 
I faced a rather strange but relatively simple requirement a few days back. The client had employed a resource to refresh the sessions page and capture the running queries from it and mail it to a team that dealt with performance tuning. This is certainly not the most efficient (more...)

This post is main a note to myself of a script to drop all my Oracle Data Miner models.

1. Check to see what models you have in your schema

SELECT model_name,
       mining_function,
       algorithm,
       build_duration,
       model_size
FROM ALL_MINING_MODELS;

2. Drop all the ODM models

set serveroutput (more...)

How many days are there to Christmas?

select 
to_date('25/12/2011','DD/MM/YYYY') - trunc(sysdate) "How Many Sleep to Santa"
from dual;

There are a few Oracle 12c books available on Amazon (see below for  amazon.co.uk).  Here is my letter to Santa

Dear Santa

Could I have some of these books?  I've (more...)

I have SQL Dev 3.2.2 (32-bit) with the supplied JDK running on windows, in work and is rolled out to a large number of PCs. Sometimes we can have 10 users running SQL Developer against our 11.2 Database. But sometimes we can have 100 users using SQL (more...)

If you are in or near Seattle on Friday, November 8th, don't miss the opportunity to see the new features of the Hyperion 11.1.2.3 release.  Oracle representatives are teaming together with the Kscope14 Street Team to bring you this 2-hour mini-session at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research (more...)

The call for presentations at the OUG Ireland 2014 conference (or special event) is not open for submissions.

We hope to build on the previous successful events over the past few years, where we had seen the number of attendees double in two year.

The annual conference (or special event) (more...)

I am proud and delighted to announce that we are now offering ODI classes.

Learn from a combined 18+ years hands on ODI experience and get the following benefits.

Top Quality

Choose world class ODI training from THE ODI gurus. Don’t settle for less.

Value-Priced

Unrivaled in quality AND affordable (more...)