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Stupid Programming Tricks No. 22 – Making Applied OLAP’s Outline Extractor...
A note before the introductionMMIC, aka Glenn Schwartzberg, wrote a post on this tool last week. While I would love to identify a vast ACE Director conspiracy because that would mean I was...
View ArticleCan you take over the OTN ArchBeat Podcast?
Are you an Architect? Have something to say? Want to work with OTN?You likely are, you almost certainly do, and really should. It’s also dead easy.The OTN ArchBeat podcast has been around since 2008...
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The new (and improved) EPM documentation portal
In the beginningIn my experience (or at least memory, which, as you will read below, is perhaps not iron trap-like) there have been three major iterations of the EPM documentation portal under Oracle’....
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A really, really, really interesting guest blog on parallelism and its impact...
This is your captain speakingI am very happy to inform you that I have once again suckered convinced another very clever and insightful Essbase hacker to write for me. Peter Nitschke of M-Power...
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Stupid Programming Tricks No. 23 -- UNC, Sub Vars, and DATAEXPORT
Is The Stupid is spreading?Nope, this Stupid Trick is pretty good. I am however continuing my pattern of stealing good ideas highlighting all that is best in the Essbase world with this...
View ArticleSocial media, ODTUG, and you
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brotherWell, my younger, taller, smarter brother-who-isn’t-really my brother. I am of course referring to my almost-doppelganger, Martin D’Souza. Why am I mentioning a non-EPM...
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Stupid Programming Trick No. 24 – Sub Vars to tables via Calc Scripts
IntroductionThis is another in a series of good ideas that have been shamelessly stoleninspired by Martin Slack. I’m learning an awful lot from Martin; I’m not entirely sure that he is from me. Such...
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EPM documentation – The little things mean a lot
The problem If you’ve ever needed to send a link to a particular subject within the Essbase Technical Reference, henceforth called Tech Ref ‘cos I am lazy), you may have had a frustrating experience....
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Stupid Programming Trick No. 25 part A – Hybrid allocations the Wild but...
Let’s talk about allocations of the most simple kindBefore I go any further, I must give credit to Tim German aka Cube Coder aka @CubeCoderDotCom. He and I came up with this approach as part of our...
View ArticleStupid Programming Trick No. 25 part B – Hybrid Allocations the CDF Way
Pig Latin and EssbaseThis series of Hybrid allocation approaches started out as a two part approach, but Peter Nitschke aka @essbasedownundr came up with a better way. So, in the spirt of the...
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Developing Essbase Applications: Hybrid Techniques and Practices is now...
Huzzah! It’s finally for sale!Thanks to Anonymous’ comment (thanks, Anon) on the prepublication blog post for DEA Hybrid, world+dog now knows that the book is finally, finally, finally available for...
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Stupid Programming Trick No. 25 part C -- Hybrid allocations purely in BSO
The high, the low, and the Perry ComoSometimes I wonder why I make these parenthetical references when it seems all too likely that Mr. Smooth and Calm aka Mr. C is an unknown quantity to anyone under...
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Developing Essbase Applications now available for purchase
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally hereFor those of us who love books, or whose ego demands a hardbound copy to place on a bookshelf so he can read his name on the binder, you (and I) can now buy...
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Stupid Programming Tricks No. 27 -- Expanded dimension security in Planning
Expanding your horizons while locking them down at the same timeI was recently on a Planning engagement where planners were eschewing Planning forms for the Awesomeness That Is Essbase. Note that this...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2015 live blogging, Tim and Cameron’s most excellent EPM...
What am I doing here?I’m sitting in at the ACE Directors briefing hearing about all sorts of cool stuff. It is an incredible opportunity to hear about what Oracle will be doing. Unfortunately I’m not...
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Day -1 at OpenWorld 2015
Why -1?The formal start of OpenWorld is tomorrow, but we (or at least I) know know that the User Group Sunday is the real start of this insanity known as Oracle’s World.And yr. obt. svt. will continue...
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OOW 2015, day 1 -- Essbase in the Cloud
It’s here, it’s here, it’s hereAnd it’s for real. Essbase Cloud Service, aka EssCS has arrived. And it’s pretty awesome.I first heard about this from ER who found the release docs on Network54. And...
View ArticleThe end of OOW 2015, the Cloud, and us
A day late and a dollar shortApologies for the tardiness of this, the incredible tardiness, really, but I have been beyond swamped by work. I try not to bring my...
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The Compleat Idiot’s Guide to PBCS, No. 1 – Documentation
No, this isn’t my series on VolkswagensAlthough I do come from a family members who were smart/crazy enough to own a 1953 VW Zwitter Bug (so long ago the color is unknown, but probably white), a 1966...
View ArticleWant to read the official word about Hybrid? You’re probably missing this.
A noteBefore I torpedo sales of Developing Essbase Applications: Hybrid Techniques and Practices, what I’m about to relate does not replace it, but instead supplements the Hybrid chapter Tim German...
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