http://www.dagira.com ...you are in a twisty maze of passageways, all different... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jason Cao, one of the Business Objects Community Evangelists at the SAP Community Network (SCN) has an interesting challenge for Xcelsius developers. He has posted some very simple data and asked for folks to jazz it up with Xcelsius. Xcelsius Challenge for Community Poll Results If you're interested, you have until ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/11/xcelsius-contest-on-scn/ This has to be the parameter with the worst. Name. Ever. But let me start at the beginning. Some databases require you to use actual column names in an ORDER BY clause. Like this: select first_name, last_name, phone from employee order by last_name, first_name Other databases let you take a shorter approach and sort by ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/03/04/sort_by_nono-very-confusing/ Five easy steps to crash your Teradata system: Step 1: Upgrade to Teradata version 13 Step 2: Recognize that with this version a "distinct" query no longer returns sorted results Step 3: On the advice of Teradata, reconfigure your box with the "regression" parameter that makes distinct queries behave the way they did ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/02/26/want-to-crash-teradata-give-it-some-lov/ I spent last Sunday and Monday in Atlanta. I didn't see much of the city as I was holed up in a downtown hotel with 250 of my closest friends :) working on plans for ASUG's coming year. There were a number of interesting things that came out of the ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/01/27/asug-volunteer-summit/ I'm in Atlanta for the 2010 volunteer summit meeting for ASUG. One of the early announcements was the location and dates for the 2010 fall Business Objects conference. It will run from October 4 - 7 and will be hosted at the Dolphin Resort (near Walt Disney World) in Orlando, ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/01/24/fall-2010-business-objects-dates-and-location-announced/ Hi, folks, just wanted to let everyone know that I realize there are a number of comments or questions that have been piling up without responses. I'm a bit busy with work and preparing for the ASUG volunteer summit being held this weekend. I will catch up on comments and ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/01/22/behind-on-comments/ One of the hardest concepts to explain when introducing new folks to Business Objects is context. I now imagine blog readers who have been working with the tools for a while have started nodding their heads in agreement, only to stop and say, "Hey, wait a second, is Dave talking ... http://www.dagira.com/2010/01/04/calculation-context-part-i-overview/ It has been an interesting year. I got to attend more conferences this year than any other year before. I left one company and joined another. The GBN grew and then ultimately merged into ASUG. BOB grows ever closer to the next milestone (600,000 posts and 50,000 users). My BI ... http://www.dagira.com/2009/12/25/happy-holidays/ Earlier this year I attended SAP TechEd 2009. Many of their sessions were lecture only, but they also provided a number of two or four-hour hands-on sessions. I selected one specific session in order to learn about improvements in the process used to build universes against SAP data sources like ... http://www.dagira.com/2009/12/23/foodmart-2000-universe-review-part-i-introduction/ In the first post in this series I defined what time-sliced measures are and why they can be useful in a universe. In the second post I described a special calendar table that was designed and built to support the requirements for this solution. I also showed how the join ... http://www.dagira.com/2009/12/17/time-sliced-measures-part-iii-making-measures/