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  • UK OUG & Shared Services Security

    This week I attended and presented at my first UK Oracle User Group, Special Interest Group (SIG) for Essbase and Planning. Attending the UK OUG was definitely beneficial and great to find out what other people are doing with the products. I would thoroughly recommend this to anyone who has an interest in Essbase and Planning to attend these ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 03-18-2010
  • Modelling & Loading a Slowly Changing Many-to-Many Relationship

    I havent blogged for a while, mostly because I have been busy. Today I am on a train to London , so I thought what better thing could I do to fill the time than to blog about something I have been meaning to blog about for a while: Modelling Slowly changing many-to-many relationships in a Data Warehouse. This is something that, on paper, seems ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 02-18-2010
  • re: Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

    Shaun, for iTunes you could quite easily write something that looks at your iTunes library and passes out cxml like below, try it out: <?xml version="1.0"?> <Collection Name="My Music Collection" SchemaVersion="1.0" xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/.../2009" ...
    Posted to Altius Tech Blog (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 11-20-2009
  • SmartView – Timeout Increase NetRetryCount

    Recently I have been tearing my hair out with SmartView as whenever I perform a large query against my Essbase cube I receive a timeout that suggests I should up the NetRetryCount. Fine I thought, so I updated the Essbase.cfg file with the following (just to be sure): NETDELAY 8000 NETRETRYCOUNT 8000 and restarted Essbase and re-tried my ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 11-02-2009
  • Importance of Unrealised FX Gain and Loss

    Many businesses want to see measures across multiple currencies, for example: sales for all countries or customer balances for all account currency types. Typically when dealing with multiple currencies a base currency to report on is chosen to make life easier (you cant simply add Euro sale values to Sterling sale values and get the correct ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 08-07-2009
  • Multi Level Hierarchy Dimension Design Tip

    When building a dimensional modelling solution, somewhere along the line you will almost certainly have at least one multi level hierarchy within one or more dimensions. A good example of this is a Product hierarchy, which might go: Department->Sub Department->Type->Product Typically for each level member you will have an ID (be it ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 08-07-2009
  • Creating Slowly Changing Hierarchies in SSAS 2005

    In a Data Warehouse, youll typically get at least one slowly changing hierarchy. Youll probably also have other slowly changing attributes on the same dimension that are not in the hierarchy, causing many changes. Setting up this scenario in SSAS 2005 is easy, but it is also easy to do it wrong! Therefore I thought it would be useful to blog ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 07-03-2009
  • Oracle Essbase 11 Excel Add-in Installation Gotcha

    Today I installed the Oracle Essbase 11 Excel add-in. All worked well and I could connect to Essbase fine. When another user logged on to my machine and attempted to use it, the user could not connect to Essbase using the Excel add-in (nothing would seem to happen) and when trying to initialise the API would receive error #1030000. It seems ...
    Posted to Jake Smillie (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 04-22-2009
  • re: Data Warehousing - Early Arriving Facts

    The Inferred method is generally a great way to deal with early arriving facts. I have added an additional way on my blog series and you can read it here: community.altiusconsulting.com/.../kimball-microsoft-data-warehouse-what-the-don-t-tell-you-part-4-dealing-with-failed-lookups-amp-early-arriving-facts-alternative-approach.aspx
    Posted to Tom Stagg (Weblog) by JakeSmillie on 10-28-2008
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