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This blog post will look at how you can go about installing ORE in your environment.

The install involves a 4 steps. The first step is the install on the Oracle Database server. The second step involves the install on your client machine. The third steps involves creating a schema for ORE. The fourth steps is connecting to the database using ORE.

In this Part A blog post I will cover the first two steps (more...)

A few of weeks ago we had the release of Oracle R Enterprise (ORE).

There has been some posts on the R/ORE on the Oracle discussion forums about installing ORE on Oracle 12c.

It turns out that the only way to install ORE on an Oracle 12c database is if you do a traditional install. What this means is that you do not have a CDB and PDBs configuration of Oracle 12c.

I'll assume that (more...)

At a recent Oracle User Group conference, I was part of a round table discussion on Apps and BI. Unfortunately most of the questions were focused on Apps and the new Fusion Applications from Oracle. I mentioned that there was data mining functionality (using the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option) built into the Fusion Apps, it seems to come as a surprise to the Apps people. They were not aware of this built in functionality and (more...)

This notes are really just a reminder to myself of the typical "issues" that I encounter every time I do a new install of OEL 6.x and 11.2.0.4

These notes are in addition to the excellent installation instructions given by oracle-base.com: oel install, DB 11.2.0.x install

The notes listed below are just a reminder to myself of things that I seem to always have to look (more...)

Hi All

As Hive metastore is getting into the center of nervous system for the different type of  SQL engines like Shark and Impala. It getting equally difficult to distinguish type of table created in Hive metastore. Eg. if we create a impala table using impala shell you will see the same table on hive prompt and vice versa. See the below example

 

Step 1 : “Create Table” in Impala Shell and “Show Table” (more...)

This blog post is a follow up to comment on a previous blog post and to some emails.

Basically the people are asking about some messages they get when they open the Oracle Data Miner tool, that is part of SQL Developer.

If you are just using the SQL and PL/SQL functions in the database then you do not have to worried about Oracle Text. You will receive no warning message.

But if you use (more...)

If you are interested in using ORE or just to get an idea of what does ORE give you that does not already exist in one of the other R packages then the table below lists the packages that come as part of ORE.

Before you can use then you will need to load these into your workspace. To do this you can issue the following command from the R prompt or from the prompt (more...)

The Gartner 2014 Advanced Analytics Quadrant is out now. Well it is if you can find it.

Some of the companies have put it up on their websites to promote their position.

For some reason Oracle hasn't and I wonder why?

You can see that some typical technologies are missing from this, but this is to be expected. How much are companies really deploying these alternatives on real problems and in production. Perhaps the positioning (more...)

An important announcement was made on the Oracle Data Mining discussion forum last night and I haven't seen anything on twitter about it yet (but maybe I missed it). It was about some ODM Repository migration issues that you might encounter with using ODM in SQL Developer 4.0.1 and using the Oracle Database 11.2.0.3.

Check out the full announcement here.

Make sure you have a full backup of your ODM (more...)

Hi All,

While building a data flow for replacing one of the EDW’ workflow using Big Data technology stack , came across some interesting findings and issues.  Due to  UPSERT ( INSERT new records or UPDATE existing records depending) nature of data we had to use Hbase, but to expose the outbound feed we need to do some calculation on HBase and publish that to Hive as external. Even though conceptually , its easy to create an (more...)

Back at the end of January Oracle finally go round to releasing the updated version of the Oracle BigDataLite virtual machine. Check out my previous blog post of this.

Yesterday (27th March) I say on Facebook that a new updated versions of the BigDataLite VM was released. I must have missed the tweet and other publicity on this somewhere :-(

This is a great VM that allows you to play with the various Big Data (more...)

In a previous post I gave a an overview of the various in-database data mining algorithms that you can use in your Oracle R Enterprise scripts.

To create data mining models based on those algorithms you need to use the ore.odm functions.

After you have developed and tested your models you will select one of these to score your new data.

How can you do this using ORE? There is a suite of ORE (more...)

Last week, we released Dodeca version 6.7.1.4340 which focuses on some new relational functionality. The major new features in 6.7.1 are:

• Concurrent SQL Query Execution
• Detailed SQL Timed Logging
• Query and Display PDF format
• Ability to Launch Local External Processes from Within Dodeca

Concurrent SQL Query Execution

Dodeca has a built-in SQLPassthroughDataSet object that supports queries to a relational database.  The SQLPassthroughDataSet functionality was engineered such that a SQLPassthroughDataSet object (more...)

Oracle R Enterprise is the version of R that Oracle has that runs in the database instead of on your laptop or desktop.

Oracle already has a significant number of data mining algorithms in the database. With ORE they have exposed these so that they can be easily called from your R (ORE) scripts.

To access these in-database data mining algorithms you will need to use the ore.odm package.

ORE is continually being developed (more...)

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While looking into HBase performance issue, one of the suggestion was to have more region for a larger table. There was some confusion around, “Region” vs “RegionServer” . While doing some digging, found a simple text written below.

The basic unit of scalability and load balancing in HBase is called a region. Regions are essentially contiguous ranges of rows stored together. They are dynamically split by the system when they become too large. Alternatively, they may (more...)

The title of this blog post makes it sound more dramatic than it actually is.

The reason for this blog post is down to me receiving a recent comment on the blog, plus having received numerous emails and a recent OTN Discussion Forum topic for Oracle Data Mining.

The main thing that they have in common is that if I use the latest version of Oracle Data Mining (ODM) it tells me that I need (more...)

Sometimes it can happen that user profiles within a web catalog become corrupted for any number of reasons. In order for these user profiles to be correctly re-initialized, there's more to be done than just drop /users/JohnDoe from the web catalog.

All in all there are three distinct places which need to be cleaned:

• /users/JohnDoe
• /system/users/123456
• /system/acocuntids/987654

This is really important since especially the third place contains the translation between the userid and the effective (more...)

Hi All

With increasing data  volume , in HDFS space could be continued challenge. While running into some space related issue, following command came very handy, hence thought of sharing with extended virtual community.

hadoop dfsadmin -report

Post running the command, below is the result, it takes all the nodes in the cluster and gives the detail break-up based on the space availability and spaces used.

Configured Capacity: 13965170479105 (12.70 TB)
Present Capacity: 4208469598208  (more...)

Oracle R Enterprise (ORE) 1.4 has just been released and can downloaded from here. Remember there is a client and server side install required and ORE 1.4 is certified against R 3.0.1 and the Oracle R Distribution

One of the interesting new features is the PARALLEL option. You can set this to significantly improve the performance of your R server side code by using the PARALLEL database option. You can set (more...)

In the second part of the series we cover:

More discussion on ODI vs Informatica
More on migrating from OWB to ODI
Using ODI outside the data warehouse (BI Apps)
ODI in the cloud
ODI and Big Data

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