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psservice – Windows command line goodness!
Our main servers are Unix and I’m as happy as a pig in muck at the command line, so when I’m working on Windows (where I’ve got a test OBIEE install) I like to stick with the CLI where possible....
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OBIEE Windows PerfMon counters
Yet another way to access the BI Management data discussed here – through Windows’ PerfMon tool. This will only work for installations where your OBIEE server is running on Windows. You should be able...
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Querying SQL Server from OBIEE running on Unix
A question that pops up on the OBIEE OTN forum quite often is how to use non-Oracle databases like MS SQL Server when the OBIEE server is running on a non-Windows OS such as Linux. The answer in a...
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CAF troubles
Following the Oracle CAF tutorial here, I got to Cloning Answers Requests section and then got stuck. I’d set up my environment exactly the same as in the tutorial, down to the same paths etc. After...
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AdminTool.exe /command
There’s an undocumented feature in AdminTool.exe that you can use the /command switch with a text file containing scripted commands to make changes to an RPD file (or create a new one). It’s...
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How to resolve “[nQSError: 12002] Socket communication error at call=:...
This error caught me out today. I was building a Linux VM to do some work on, and for the life of me couldn’t get the OBIEE Admin Tool to connect to the BI Server on the VM. The error I got when trying...
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Oracle XE 11gR2 installation –“OracleXEService should not be installed already”
Oracle XE 11gR2 beta has just been released, some details here and download here. It’s not a great deal of use for sandboxing DWH-specific stuff, given this list of excluded functionality (and this is...
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Oracle – tnsping – Message 3513 not found; product=NETWORK; facility=TNS
Short note to record this, as Google drew no hits on it. Windows XP machine with existing Oracle 11.1 client installation, all working fine. Installed Oracle 11.2 XE, and started getting these errors:...
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