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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Merges


During the initial development, for example, for a proof of concept, it is common to have one developer working on the system with a full release of an RPD from development to production. At that moment, change control is simple as the whole updated RPD is kept with versioning via a third-party tool, such as Visual SourceSafe (VSS) or Subversion (SVN).

However, as a project matures in a live environment, you may have minor changes that are made online or quick point releases made directly to production in order to support urgent user requests. In parallel, we would commonly be developing a major DEV to PROD release as a part of the next stage for the project.

This means that you need to merge changes from both the amended PROD RPD and the new DEV release candidate. If the PROD changes are minor, developers may keep a log of changes and manually add them to the DEV RPD. For more involved or for a larger amount of changes, it would be best to utilize a tool that will help to merge the...