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Out of the Past
IntroductionYou’re all Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas fans, right? And all film noir fans, too? No? You really should give this film a try. To say that they don’t make ‘em like they used to is putting...
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Going under the covers with TRACE_MDX
IntroductionI don't know about you, but I used to use the Classic Add In's Essbase Query Designer to give me a leg up in writing Essbase Report Scripts. As far as I know, there is no way to do that in...
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Using TRACE_MDX with Planning
IntroductionAs I showed in my last post, TRACE_MDX can be utilized with Planning ad hoc forms. Oh, terrific, but do I really and truly have to go into an ad hoc form to see the layout? Besides, going...
View ArticleA very different kind of ODTUG webinar
Marketing introductionThe ODTUG virtual panel series goes from strength to strength. (What, marketing? You promised me a rose gardena marketing-free blog. Yes, but this isn't marketing for me, so...
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Stupid Programming Trick No. 17 -- Hacking EPMA's Planning Time Distribution
The problemA Planning 11.1.2.2 application was created with the wrong Time Distribution option. Oops. And no one noticed until the UAT. Double oops. The real oopsie in this is that once created, a...
View ArticleWhat Kscope13 sessions am I looking forward to, part one
IntroductionThis is always a tough one because there are so many good sessions at ODTUG’sKscope conferences. If you’ve read my posts in years past on the conference, you will know that I have ranted...
View ArticleWhat Kscope13 sessions am I looking forward to, part two
IntroductionI’ve already covered the Essbase side of the house in part one of this series. I lurv Essbase more that is likely healthy for my psyche. Or social life. But I seem to spend an awful lot of...
View ArticleWhat Kscope13 sessions am I looking forward to, part three
IntroductionI’ve already covered the Essbase and Planning side of the house in parts one and two of this series. What about the foundation for these tools? You know, the data and metadata that make EPM...
View ArticleWhat Kscope13 sessions am I looking forward to, part four
IntroductionI’ve covered the Essbase, Planning, and EPM Foundations and Data Management side of the house in parts one, two and three of this series. Those subjects are all about getting data and...
View ArticleWhat Kscope13 sessions am I looking forward to, part five
IntroductionI’ve covered the Essbase, Planning, EPM Foundations and Data Management and EPM Reporting side of the conference – but what about the rest of Kscope13? Is there anything else at the...
View ArticleWhat Kscope13 sessions am I looking forward to, Cameron edition
IntroductionIn my five previous posts I’ve covered the Essbase, Planning, EPM Foundations and Data Management, EPM Reporting, and Everything Else sessions I am looking forward to (and admitting that I...
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Kscope13, day -1
IntroductionFor the last two years at Kscope I have live-blogged during the conference; Kscope13 will be no different. This is both a fun and difficult task/duty. Sometimes I am really, really,...
View ArticleKscope13, day 0
IntroductionSundays at Kscope are always Symposium day. I understand that there are multiple other Symposiums, one for each track. Of course, being an Essbase geek, the only thing I care about is...
View ArticleKscope13, day 1
IntroductionMonday is the first “real” day of the conference. All very, very cool and for the first three sessions I am also room ambassador. Alas, this does not mean that I shall be henceforth be...
View ArticleKscope13, days 2, 3, and 4
IntroductionOh dear, I am rather afraid that the entire concept of live-blogging, or live-tweeting (see that box to the right of this text on my blog), has been a complete and utter failure this year....
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What makes Essbase data extraction fast?
IntroductionI am so sad/pathetic/a-geek-desperately-in-need-of-a-life. No, that is not the point of this blog post (although the statement is true) but instead it is an observation that I am an...
View ArticleI cover the Antipodes
Okay, technically they’re only the Antipodes if you live in England. And, if you look at a globe, it’s easy to tell that this is just a figure of speech, not a direction for a Journey To The Center Of...
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Stupid Planning queries #11 -- Where and what are my Smart Lists
Where oh where has my Smart List gone?Smart Lists are a wonderful thing. Well, that may be slightly exaggerating their usefulness but if you want to create a drop down list in a Planning Account (or...
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Stupid Planning query #12 -- Calculation Manager Rights
IntroductionArrrgh, this one really got me going. Actually, I have noticed that I have never written a query against the Planning tables unless I am unable to get whatever it is out of Planning easily....
View ArticleAustralians, So where the bloody hell are you?
Wow, that is a pretty awful tourism slogan, isn’t it? I figured if you lot inflicted it on the rest of the world turnabout is fair play. With luck, I will be met with chants of “Yankee go home!” In...
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