A Couple of OBIEE 11g Installation Points

Make sure the DEV_BIPLATFORM and DEV_MDS users have the same password and that their accounts aren’t locked after running the RCU. Despite what Oracle would have you believe it seems the DBA role is not required and nor are SYSDBA nor SYSOPER privileges.

OBIEE 11g RCU: SQL Server 2008 Walkthrough

Running the OBIEE 11g Repository Creation Utility (RCU) against a SQL Server database wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped. There are a few preliminary tasks which aren’t obvious so I’ve decided to put this guide together. First log in to your SQL Server and create a new user. In this case I’m naming it obi_user. [...]