Need some advices with OBIEE

Hi guys,
At the moment I am doing an internship somewhere, and I am supposed to visualise some data from an Oracle database into a Google Map.
The data should be fake, because the application will be a showcase.
I need some start-up hints, because actually I don't know where to start and with which programs.
First of all a little background.
The following programs are installed on my laptop:
- Oracle DB (1013)
- Oracle Example Schemas
- Oracle WebLogic (103)
- Oracle BI enterprise (101340)
- JDeveloper
This is what I want:
- Create a database or schema with fake data. The fake data should consist of addresses. (for the Google Map)
- The combination with BI enterprise is a requirement, part of the internship programme.
- Combination with Google map functionality.
Maybe someone can give me some advices in how to begin. Which techniques I should use or some useful tutorials.
I would really appreciate if someone can give me a heads up!

The [Oracle by Example|http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_ee_1013/index.html] website has many good step by step tutorials on OBIEE so that would be a good start. Having said OBIEE doesn't support "heat maps" or overlaying data on maps out of the box. They are some 3rd party tools out there but I don't think you want to go there. From my point of view anyone asking you to use OBIEE to overlay data on Google Maps doesn't know what OBIEE should be used for (and probably doesn't know Google Maps either).

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Exit code 0 means there were no errors. When you run showrev -p 137004-02, does your system show that the patch is installed? You can check the log for a particular patch add attempt in /var/sadm/patch/+patch_num_rev+1- A bunch of stuff shows up, here is a portion (I am not entirely sure what it means, there must be a least a page of stuff like this):
Patch: 121081-08 Obsoletes: Requires: 121453-02 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWc cccrr, SUNWccccr, SUNWccfw, SUNWccsign, SUNWcctpx, SUNWccinv, SUNWccccfg, SUNWcc fwctrl
Patch: 122231-01 Obsoletes: Requires: 121453-02 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWc ctpx
Patch: 120932-01 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcctpx
Patch: 123123-02 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWccinv
Patch: 121118-12 Obsoletes: Requires: 121453-02 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWc smauth, SUNWppror, SUNWpprou, SUNWupdatemgru, SUNWupdatemgrr, SUNWppro-plugin-su nos-base
2.
Where are all the drives? I don't know how to find the RAID box or the other 3 internal hard drives. When I >installed the OS, I think I installed it on only one hard drive and that might be part of the reason why the >medialibe update above says that I don't have enough space.
When you run format command, how many drives are listed? Identify your root drive (compare with output of df command you ran earlier) Please post here.2. Output of df-hk, looks like I ran out of room. Should I just go ahead and reinstall the OS?
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 5.9G 5.4G 378M 94% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 42G 1.3M 42G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1
5.9G 5.4G 378M 94% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1
5.9G 5.4G 378M 94% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 42G 1.1M 42G 1% /tmp
swap 42G 32K 42G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 46G 47M 46G 1% /export/home
3. So I guess the general consensus is to reinstall the OS, is that correct?
4. There is nothing in \dev\rmt, and unfortunately I don't have a tape to test it with!
5. I guess 5GB will be ok for what we do.
Alan.pae*
1. I think the above text might explain why it failed, although I don't know how to correct it.
2. Output of format:
# mount
/ on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 read/write/setuid/devices/intr/largefiles/logging/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=1d80008 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:51 2008
/devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4dc0000 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/system/contract on ctfs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4e00001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/proc on proc read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4e40000 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/etc/mnttab on mnttab read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4e80001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/etc/svc/volatile on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=4ec0001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/system/object on objfs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4f00001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1 on /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1 read/write/setuid/devices/dev=1d80008 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:50 2008
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1 on /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1 read/write/setuid/devices/dev=1d80008 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:50 2008
/dev/fd on fd read/write/setuid/devices/dev=50c0001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:51 2008
/tmp on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=4ec0002 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:52 2008
/var/run on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=4ec0003 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:52 2008
/export/home on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 read/write/setuid/devices/intr/largefiles/logging/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=1d8000f on Mon Mar 10 10:56:57 2008
3. Judging by the above text I will be doing a reinstall huh?
4. Actually I am not familiar with tape backups let alone solaris backup apps! Any suggestions? (Preferably free, have to cut down on costs.)
5. No comment
Thanks for the help, hope to hear from you again!
rjbanker

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Hi All
I need some help with a table.
My table needs to hold prices that the user can update.
Also has a total of the column.
my question is if the user adds in a new price how can i pick up the value they have just entered and then add it to the total which will be the last row in the table?
I have a loop that gets all the values of the column, so I can get the total but it is when the user adds in a new value that I need some help with.
I have tried using but as I need to set the toal with something like total
 totalTable.setValueAt(total, totalTable.getRowCount()-1,1); I end up with an infinite loop.
Can any one please advise on some way I can get this to work ?
Thanks for reading
Craig

Hi there camickr
thanks for the help the other day
this is my full code....
package printing;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
public class tablePanel
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BorderLayout borderLayout1 = new BorderLayout();
private boolean printing = false;
private Dialog1 dialog;
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JTable table;
JScrollPane scrollPane1 = new JScrollPane();
DefaultTableModel model;
private String[] columnNames = {
private Object[][] data;
private String selectTotal;
private double total;
public tablePanel(Dialog1 dp) {
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 try {
 jbInit();
 catch (Exception exception) {
 exception.printStackTrace();
public tablePanel() {
 try {
 jbInit();
 catch (Exception exception) {
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private void jbInit() throws Exception {
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 addToModel();
 addRows();
 setTotal();
public static void main(String[] args) {
tablePanel tablePanel = new tablePanel();
tablePanel.pack();
tablePanel.setVisible(true);
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total = 0;
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 if (!"".equals(name)) {
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 total = total + dt;
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table.setValueAt(str, table.getRowCount() - 1, 1);
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 Object[] data = {
 "Price", "5800"};
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public void addRows() {
 int rows = 20;
 for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
 Object[] data = {
 model.addRow(data);
public void printOut() {
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 try {
 pj.print();
 catch (Exception PrintException) {}
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 double scale = 1;
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 scale = pageWidth / tableWidth;
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 double pageHeightForTable = oneRowHeight *numRowsOnAPage;
 int totalNumPages = (int) Math.ceil( ( (double) table.getRowCount()) / numRowsOnAPage);
 if (pageIndex >= totalNumPages) {
 return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
 g2.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
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 g2.drawString("Page: " + (pageIndex + 1 + " of " + totalNumPages), (int) pageWidth / 2 - 35, (int) (pageHeight + fontHeight - fontDesent));
 g2.translate(0f, headerHeightOnPage);
 g2.translate(0f, -pageIndex * pageHeightForTable);
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 if (pageIndex + 1 == totalNumPages) {
 int lastRowPrinted =
 numRowsOnAPage * pageIndex;
 int numRowsLeft =
 table.getRowCount()
 - lastRowPrinted;
 g2.setClip(0,
 (int) (pageHeightForTable * pageIndex),
 (int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
 (int) Math.ceil(oneRowHeight *
 numRowsLeft));
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 g2.setClip(0,
 (int) (pageHeightForTable * pageIndex),
 (int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
 (int) Math.ceil(pageHeightForTable));
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 printing = true;
 try {
 table.paint(g2);
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 JTable table,
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 boolean isSelected,
 boolean isFocused,
 int row, int column) {
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 table,
 value,
 isSelected,
 isFocused,
 row,
 column);
 if( value == null || value .equals("")){
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 double number = 0.0;
 number = new Double(value.toString()).doubleValue();
 DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat(",##0.00");
 ( (JLabel) component).setText(df.format(number));
 return component;
}

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Need some help with a Macally enclousure
Posted: Oct 1, 2010 10:55 AM
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Aloha:
I have a Macally PHR-S100SUA enclousure that does not recognise,my WD 1001fals hard drive. It has worked just fine with other internal drives, but not this one?
This is a spare internal drive that I am trying to make an external drive to store back ups for a lot of data. But so far I can not get it recognized by the computer. Maybe I need different drivers?
Any suggestions?
Dan Page

Hi-
Drivers aren't typically needed for external enclosures.
Macally has none listed for that enclosure.
The same is true for the WD drive, internal or external; no drivers.
With the exception of high end PM multi drive enclosures, I can't think of any that use drivers.
How is the external connected?
Have you tried different cables, different ports?
Bad/damaged cables are fairly common.
Have you verified connections inside of the enclosure?

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