Monday, April 23, 2012

OBIEE install avoid RTD license problems

If you are not going to use RTD (Real Time Decisions) uncheck the box during installation:

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This avoids extremely difficult discussions with Oracle over the license fee.

Till Next Time

Friday, April 20, 2012

OBIEE 11116 repository on MS-SQL I

We had to do a POC on some MS-SQL data. Instead of bringing an extra Oracle DB we used an existing MS-SQL instance.

1. Create a repository database:

We called ours “Repositories” Winking smile

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2. Enable case-sensitive collation

ALTER DATABASE Repositories COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS

3. Enable Row versioning

ALTER DATABASE Repositories SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON