Monday, October 21, 2013

OBIEE 11g Questions


How do I disable cache for only 2 particular tables?
 In the physical layer, right click on the table there we will have the option which says cacheable

Is it mandatory to have hierarchies defined in your repository? If Yes, where does it help? If No, what happens in the reports?
In OBIEE 10g, it is not mandatory. These are used for drill down and level based measures
In OBIEE 11g it is mandatory, else you get some warnings and errors.

How do you create outer joins in physical layer?
We cannot create

Minimum criteria to pass consistency checking for a given repository -> One Dimension table and One Fact table.


How do we upload new file into BI server in 10g and 11g?
In 10g using NQSConfig.ini
In 11g using EM (EM manages NQSConfig.ini)

How to bypass server authentication?

You can bypass the authentication in NQSConfig.ini and instance config.xml, BYPASS SERVER AUTHENTICATION=YES

How we can do different types of narrative Reports in OBIEE?


By clicking modify request and Narrative View and by giving @1 for the first column result and @2 for the 2nd column and so on and we can also give a heading for No Results by clicking the Narrative view.


What is write-back in obiee ?

We can give a column as updatable and then view the reports,this option is called write back option.

How will you execute Direct SQL in OBIEE?

By clicking Direct Database Request below the subject area in we can execute Direct SQL in OBIEE.




How we can create report from two subject areas?


UNION Report.

From the Criteria Pane of the Report Created from First Subject Area
come to the bottom of the page and click combine request. By this we can create report from two subject areas.