Preface

Not a long time ago a friend of mine spent a significant amount of time trying to find a flat to rent. And according to what he said it wasn't an easy task. It took him a decent time and efforts to find something that is big enough (but not too big) not too far from a workplace, had required features and affordable at the same time. And as a specialist in data analysis, (more...)

Monday, 12 Jun saw the official release of Unify, Rittman Mead's very own connector between Tableau and OBIEE. It provides a simple but powerful integration between the two applications that allows you to execute queries through OBIEE and manipulate and render the datasets using Tableau.

Why We Made It

One of the first questions of course would be why we would want to do this in the first place. The excellent thing about OBI (more...)

Today, I asked Oracle to move me from Oracle ACE Director status to Oracle ACE Alumni status.  There are a number of reasons why I decided to change status.  When I started answering questions on internet forums years ago, I did it to share what I had learned in order to help others.  The same goes for this blog which I originally started so that I could give better and more complete answers to questions (more...)

Here are some of the slides from our meetup on 11th May 2017.

The remaining slides will be added when they are available.

The next OUG Ireland Meetup is happening on 11th May, in the Bank of Ireland Grand Canal Dock. This is a free event and is open to every one. You don't have to be a member to attend.

Following on from a very successful 2 day OUG Ireland Conference with over 250 attendees, we have organised our next meetup. This was mentioned during the opening session of the conference.

We typically have 2 presentations (more...)

A couple of days ago it was announced that several Oracle images were available on the Docker Store.

This is by far the easiest Oracle Database install I have every done !

You simply have no excuse now for not installing and using an Oracle Database. Just go and do it now!

The following steps outlines what I did you get an Oracle 12.1c Database.

1. Download and Install Docker

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Now that the Oracle Analytics Cloud, or "OAC", has been released, we had to get serious about our work with one of the Oracle Analytics Cloud components, the Essbase Cloud Service, or "EssCS" for short.  You would think that we should have been working hard on EssCS for quite some time, but we had been assured by Oracle product management that the Essbase Java API would be available in EssCS.  Of course, Dodeca was built (more...)

A new feature for Oracle Data Mining in Oracle 12.2 is the new Model Details views.

In Oracle 11.2.0.3 and up to Oracle 12.1 you needed to use a range of PL/SQL functions (in DBMS_DATA_MINING package) to inspect the details of a data mining/machine learning model using SQL.

Check out these previous blog posts for some examples of how to use and extract model details in Oracle 12.1 and (more...)

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We had a requirement where the user wanted to be able to get into the tool and change his formula and also wanted the change to be reflected across all his reports. Changing the formula in each report was a lot of effort and hence not practical.

This blog talks about a 6 possible (more...)

With so many algorithms around its always a struggle to find out which algorithm could be suitable for the problem statement, I want to solve. Microsoft has done an amazing job to start with. Please find attached  Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet .

Hope This Helps

Sunil S Ranka

When working with Oracle R Enterprise and particularly when you are using the ORE functions that can spawn multiple R processes, on the DB Server, you need to be very aware of the amount of memory that will be consumed for each call of the ORE function.

ORE has two sets of parallel functions for running your user defined R scripts stored in the database, as part of the Embedded R Execution feature of ORE. (more...)

Here are the slides from my presentation at OUG Ireland 2017. All about running R using SQL.

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I am writing this blog after a loooooong gap and I can tell you that it is worth the wait. In this blog, we discuss about the process of setting multiple values to a presentation variable through goURL. This blog also introduces the concept of CONDITIONAL FILTERING in OBIEE.

Do not confuse the setting (more...)

Here are the presentations I gave at OUG Norway last week. These are also available on SlideShare

A couple of days ago Oracle finally provided us with an on-premises download for Oracle 12.2 Database.

Go and download load it from here

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Download the Database App Development VM with 12.2 (This is what I did)

Over the past couple of months I've been using the DBaaS of 12.2, trying out some of the new Advanced Analytics option new features, and other new features. Here are the links to the (more...)

Here at Applied OLAP, we have a great support team that we have tasked with doing their best to make sure our customers are happy with their Dodeca software.  On most days, they are answering emails and firing up impromptu support webcasts to help our customers with any questions they have.

Today, we got some great feedback from a customer after a popup support webcast.  Here is an email I received today from Edgardo Rodriguez (more...)