Capturing Environment Variables in Oracle APEX

 This post focuses on the Environment variables as they are vital in coding conditional statements.

String aggregation in OBIEE

In the BI world, we talk about measures and aggregation but we don't talk a lot about string aggregation. String aggregation is about concatenating strings for a certain dimensional value. Let me give an example. Let us say that we have a purchase order (Lets call it PO1) raised for a set of items (Lets say I1,I2 and I3). Lets say that the supplier does not have I1 in stock and wants a larger order quantity for I2 to make the shipping viable and the supplier feels that I3 can be shipped. The store manager might want to see "I1 out of stock, Order quantity of I2 is too less" against PO1. Question is, how do we do it? This blog talks about the process.

Using DB Link in OBIEE

This blog talks about the process to use DB Links on OBIEE.

Using BIP parameters in OBIEE dashboards without creating prompts

This is a simple trick that presents the process to have a parametrized BIP report in OBIEE without the need to create new prompts in OBIEE.