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Comment on Installing only the OBIEE 11g Client Tools by OBIEE Certification – preparation at odizone.com

OBIEE Certification – preparation at odizone.com — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:11:19 +0000

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Comment on OBIEE 11g – Export To The File System by Saurabh Jaiswal

Saurabh Jaiswal — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:08:51 +0000

Thanks for the good script Paul.

@Raj – You’ve to modify the script, create the folders and provide the path i.e.

sBasePath = “C:\reports\reports”

Comment on Downgrading RPD version in OBIEE 11g by gotier

gotier — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:08:45 +0000

Hi Bakthi – Have you find anything on your catalog downgrade issue between 11.1.1.6 and 11.1.1.5 ? We have actually the same issue and we don´t know how we can downgrade it..
Thanks in advance !

Comment on OBIEE TopN versus the rest by Rajeev

Rajeev — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:17:01 +0000

I have a similar requirement where I need to show first top five ‘count(prod_id)’ and then 2nd group would be when Prod Name =Expired then show count(prod_id) and rest must group under All other to get count(prod_id).
What would be the formula?

Comment on Using Oracle SQL Developer with MS SQL Server by Vijith

Vijith — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:59:46 +0000

The solution works

Here is what i entered

Hostname :-

Port :- 1433/;instance=

and it works.

Thank you very much for the post.

Comment on OBIEE 11g Transactional Update Failed [nQSError:37005] by RockitCity Tech

RockitCity Tech — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:00:00 +0000

BUG is still there in 11.1.1.6.8 as well.

Comment on OBIEE Dynamic Column Headings by Bob

Bob — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:59:14 +0000

Using the Pvar call in the column title did not work in my 10.1.3.4.1 environment. So what I did was exported the table view to html then did a view source on the page and cut out the title section and put it into a narrative view, checking the html box, then I replaced the hard coded column call with the pvar call (@(pvar_name)(default)) then I put the narrative view in the compound view over the table view. I’m not an html coder so it was a bit painfull getting it all lined but it was the closest thing to a solution I could find in 10g context. A pivot table would not work for the requirement I had, that was my first attempt.

If anyone has a better solution I’d love to hear it.

Comment on Using Oracle SQL Developer with MS SQL Server by VR

VR — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:17:04 +0000

@Manu, Use the JTDS 1.2.7 version as opposed to 1.3 for SQL Developer 3.2.20.09. Simple fix.

Comment on OBIEE 11g Transactional Update Failed [nQSError:37005] by j

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:23:05 +0000

Yes, transaction update failed is definitely in 11.1.1.3 – to – 11.1.1.6. The trick stated above does NOT work. Oracle will probably never fix this issue because they suck.

Comment on OBIEE 11g Strange ODBC Driver Error with SQL Server by Venkat

Venkat — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:50:21 +0000

Hi Paul,
We are using Oracle 11.1.1.6. We are still facing this strange error in a particular dashboard.

The work around to check the ‘Issue an explicit distinct’ is making us lose the drill and hierarchies on the report data.

I am not sure changing the RPD feature is necessarily good, without knowing the implications.
Do we have any other options?

Thank you.
V