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		<title>Dimension Hierarchy Support in Data Warehouse(2)</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/dimension-hierarchy-support-in-data-warehouse2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am describing the column flattening table in this post. The column flattening table is a typical data warehouse modeling pattern for addressing the dimension hierarchy requirements described in my last post Dimension Hierarchy Support in Data Warehouse (1). This technique can be considered as a denormalization of the parent information into the child records. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=372&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OTBI vs. OBIA</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/otbi-vs-obia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several people are curious about what are OTBI and OBIA, and what are the differences between OTBI and OBIA.  I will discuss these in this article. OTBI stands for Oracle Transactional Buisness Intelligence.  OBIA stands for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications. Let&#8217;s start with OBIA.  OBIA is the pre-packaged BI Apps that Oracle has provided for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=369&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dimension Hierarchy Support in Data Warehouse (1)</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/dimension-hierarchy-support-in-the-data-warehouse-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first post about dimension hierarchy support in a data warehouse. I will first starting with the requirement assumptions in this post and later posts will talk about the implementations. Dimension is mainly about &#8220;View By&#8221;,  &#8220;Group by&#8221;, and &#8220;Filter By&#8221;.  You say that you want to view your last year sales by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=363&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BI Apps 7.9.6.3 is out</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/bi-apps-7-9-6-3-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can use BI EE 11.1.1.5.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=351&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle To Acquire Datanomic</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/oracle-to-acquire-datanomic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>User Defined Function (UDF) in ODI</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/user-defined-function-udf-in-odi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[User Defined Function (UDF) is a very powerful feature from ODI. One of features that are absent from other ETL tool is to address the need to support different database platforms.  I won&#8217;t blame those ETL tools since they are not really designed for pre-package BI Apps. Who will need to switch database platform like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=340&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I do not use PowerConnect to access PeopleSoft Tree</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/why-i-do-not-use-powerconnect-to-access-peoplesoft-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. It does not allow you to use parameters to the PeopleSoft connect. It may be changed later. However, it was a big issue when we try to address customer issues. 2. It requires EFFDT as an input. It expects that people change the EFFDT using Mapping Editor. How can a business user does that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=335&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conditional Logics in DAC (1)</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/conditional-logics-in-dac-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post will describe three advanced features available in DAC. These are not new, but are not commonly known unless you are an expert of DAC. DAC is the engine BI Apps uses to generated ETL process flow.  It was provided since the Informatica workflow was not able to provided such flexibility to the prepackaged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=318&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDW and BI Apps (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/edw-and-bi-apps-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDW and BI Apps integration is a fun topic. I heard that more and more organizations are facing this situation. The reason is that many people buy the prepackage BI Application even though they already have an enterprise data warehouse. I found that an interesting thing is that their existing enterprise data warehouse covers many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=288&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDW and BI Apps (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/edw-and-bi-apps-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I talked about EDW as a data model offering. I also mentioned that it is possible to use the enterprise data warehouse as the source for BI Apps, but it requires a lot of manual work. The topic discussed is about evaluating if you need to have the EDW data model or BI [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=281&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDW and BI Apps (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/edw-and-bi-apps-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be an old topic, but people seem like to see and look for conflicts and arguments which do not really exist, and keep bringing this topic up. Some vendors sell the data models, particularly, the enterprise data warehouse model, and tell you that it is their BI solution. For me, data model alone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=279&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle BI Applications 7.9.6.2 is available</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/oracle-bi-applications-7-9-6-2-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The product is available to the market.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=275&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Apps and BI Apps</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/mobile-apps-and-bi-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I am interested in watching the mobile apps market development. I guess that I was attracted by the new iPhone and iPad launched in the past few years and was also attracted by the new Android tablet and apps development. It would be interesting to see how BI Apps may move into this area. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=274&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BI Apps 7.9.6.1 is released</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/bi-apps-7-9-6-1-is-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the press release from Oracle: Oracle Introduces New Release of Oracle® Business Intelligence Applications This change over the release 7.9.6 is that it is certified with Teradata, MS SQL, and DB2. Also, it includes the performance tuning of several ETL process.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=269&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BI Apps 7.9.6 is out</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/bi-apps-7-9-6-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the press release. This is a very important release for customers.  Several new features are introduced: Party Model Multiple Calendar Model Multiple Product Categories UOM Conversion Country Dimension<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=251&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Informatica ETL Tuning Steps</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/informatica-etl-tuning-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, we need to identify where the performance problem come from.   The bottleneck can be: Source Extract Transformation Lookup Target Write I will talk about how to isolate the problems and go over each about how to investigate the problem in each of these area. 1. Source Extract SQL The simple way to identify the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=234&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Security in Oracle BI Apps</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/data-security-in-oracle-bi-apps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Application]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OBIA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle BI Suite EE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siebel Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am describing how data security works in Oracle BI Apps. The key concept is that Oracle BI Apps can read the permission/grant the security administrator defined in the OLTP during the runtime.  If you change/revoke the access in OLTP, the change can be immediately reflected in OBI Apps.  This is very important if your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=225&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Use ANSI SQL for Outer Join</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/use-ansi-sql-for-outer-join/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Application]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ETL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infomatica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Data Integrator]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The OLTP source applications like PeopleSoft and Siebel applications can run on many different databases including Oracle, MS SQL, or DB2. The target data warehouse can also run on different database platforms, incluidng the above databases, plus Teradata. Various technologies can be used to enable the cross database platform support in the pre-packaged BI apps. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=223&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Use SQL*Loader with Named Pipe</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/use-sqlloader-with-named-pipe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Warehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sunopsis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typically using SQL*Loader assumes that a flat file will be used as the input. The file will need to be created and generated before the SQL*Loader can take the data from the file and load the data into Oracle. The performance can be improved and the disk space can be saved if you use named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=221&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hyperion Essbase Dimension Terminology</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/hyperion-essbase-dimension-terminology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[essbase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyperion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found the the language used in Hyperion Essbase documentation is very useful for describing the dimension hierarchy. To communicate effectively, sometime we need precise teams to describe things. The terms defined in the Hyperion Essbase documentation helps. Member: A node within a hierarchy. Root: The root is the top member in a hierarchy. Parent: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dylanwan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=437134&amp;post=219&amp;subd=dylanwan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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