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Pete Strayer

Pete Strayer

Setting aside aspirations to become a professional bass fisherman or race car driver, Pete Strayer instead opted for the glorious career as an EPM consultant. When he’s not making his dad’s secret sloppy joe recipe, you’ll likely find him creating some MDX calculations or exploring new possibilities with Oracle Data Integrator. An Arizona native, Pete’s hobbies include eating (especially pizza or Mexican food), fast cars, HPDE events (google it) and spending time with his family.

Oracle Tool for Comparison of EPM Versions

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Every wondered if there was a simple way to compare your current EPM version with a planned version upgrade. Some way to see all the cool new features that would come with the new version. Thankfully Oracle has a great online tool that provides a cumulative feature overview between EPM application versions. The tool can……

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ODI 12c Installation (Standalone install)

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PREREQUISITES Download the ODI install file http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/downloads/index.html. Make sure you have a Java JDK installed. I used the version seen below. The Oracle support matrix shows any version greater than 1.7.0_55 as supported. I’m not sure if 1.8 is supported though so I stuck with version 7. Note that support for 7 is set to……

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Real World Case Example for ODI Yellow Interface (w/ Dynamic Source and Target)

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Until recently, I never encountered a situation where I needed a “yellow interface” in ODI (Oracle Data Integrator). Typical ODI interfaces leverage models that are manually created and point to static objects such as tables or files. On a recent project, I took to ODI to create an automation process that would be used to……

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