Usage Tracking is a very important feature of Oracle BI. It can be enabled at the server level and it can store all query execution information in a table in the database. This feature allows us to create usage reports as well. We're going to learn how to enable Usage Tracking in this recipe. After enabling Usage Tracking we're going to access some sample analyses. This will generate the logs about the query executions and these logs will be stored in the Usage Tracking table. Then we will create the reports that will show the usage statistics.
To store the usage data in a database table, first of all we'll have to create this table. The table creation script can be found in the installation directory. The folder where you can find the scripts is
<ORACLE_INSTANCE>\bifoundation\OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\schema
.The
SAACCT.Oracle.sql
script file is going to be used to create the Usage Tracking table. It's good to create this table...