Robin Moffatt is a Principal DevEx Engineer and seasoned conference speaker with 15+ years of experience presenting at top events like QCon, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and Strata. He shares insights on developer experience, distributed systems, and cloud technologies through his blog, YouTube, and public talks.
491 articles from this blog
Troubleshooting the JPS-06514 keystore error during a fresh OBIEE 11.1.1.9 installation, caused by conflicting JDK environment variables.
A technical guide on configuring Oracle GoldenGate to replicate data to Kafka and Logstash using BigDataLite 4.4, with troubleshooting tips.
A developer switches from Slideshare to Speakerdeck for hosting presentation slides, citing a cleaner UI and better user experience.
Introduction to the #obihackers IRC channel for discussing Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), ODI, and general tech topics in an informal setting.
A guide to streaming custom system metrics into InfluxDB using bash commands, sed, awk, and curl for monitoring with tools like Grafana.
A history of visualizing OBIEE DMS metrics, from early JMX tools to modern Grafana dashboards.
Explains how to instrument OBIEE database connections for improved performance diagnostics and user session tracking.
Fixing OBIEE 11g UPGAST-00055 error by creating the missing Oracle Universal Installer inventory file after a local installation.
Fixing Oracle tnsping error 'Message 3513 not found' on Windows by adjusting the PATH variable order after installing a new Oracle version.
A guide to advanced formatting options for posting source code in WordPress blogs, including syntax highlighting and line control.
Explains the ambiguous GATHER AUTO option in Oracle's DBMS_STATS for gathering database statistics, clarifying its behavior compared to STALE and EMPTY.
Troubleshooting guide for Fedora 14 to 15 upgrade errors, focusing on proxy configuration and post-reboot issues.
A guide to properly labeling time-based axes in Excel by understanding how Excel stores time as fractions of a day.
Oracle's Product Assurance team launches a new technical blog focused on OBIEE configuration, tuning, and detailed implementation guidance.
Explains the importance of defining CLIENT_ID in OBIEE for user query tracking and troubleshooting database calls.
Oracle releases OBIEE 11g for HP-UX Itanium, surprising the author who doubted it would happen.
Oracle's July Critical Patch Update addresses a security vulnerability (CVE-2011-2241) in OBIEE versions 10.1.3.4.1 and 11.1.1.3.
Troubleshooting an ODI 10g connection error with OCI, identifying the issue as an incorrect ojdbc5.jar driver version.
Explores undocumented command-line parameters for the nqcmd utility in Oracle Business Intelligence, including their potential uses and limitations.
A guide to forcing Oracle 11g to use a specific execution plan for a problematic SQL query using SQL Plan Baselines.
