Clear up Usage tracking in Version 8

<p>Is there a way to clear up the usage tracking records inV8_USAGE_ATTRIBUTES table to clear up the table. The has 2.6million rows and slowing up the the migration to sytem 9. Anythoughts on this?</p>

Hi Mathias
Yes I did. It appears, that with the new version, we are also getting some new Usage Tracking data. These were created when you updated your schemas. So you need to reimport the usage tracking metadata for your usage tracking. OBIEE gives the errors because it can't write the new data fields. Once I did that, most of my reporting started to work again. The reason for the added data, is for Exalytics usage. You might not need them, but you can't come around them - so reimport the metadata, and you should be fine.
It's just not very clear, that you need to do this, from the documentation Oracle provides, atleast it wasn't for you and me any ways. Hope this helps! :-)
Regards, Jacob

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