Oracle OEM details in PowerBI

Instead of filling out excel files with all of our Oracle database details, I decided to use Power BI to organize that information.

Prerequisites

•  Must have Oracle client installed on computer
• Must have a tnsnames.ora file to connect to Oracle database
• Connecting to Oracle Database

The server entry is actually the entry in your tnsnames. Example below

Also fill in the select statement for the view that you want

In the next window choose database and then supply database credentials

A few of the OEM tables that I find interesting
mgmt.$hw_nic
mgmt.$jobs
mgmt.$os_hw_summary
mgmt.$target
mgmt.$target_properties

Oracle Open World and PASS Summit

A little less than a month ago I attended Oracle Open World in San Francisco. It's been a few years since I last attended the conference. Although San Francisco seems to have changed the conference has stayed the same. Numerous days of sessions that are very informative. As I felt the last time I attended, many of the sessions seem like marketing sessions, this isn't a bad thing, just different. I did really enjoy some sessions dealing with Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud and DBA topics. One session "Navigating your DBA Career in the Oracle Cloud" by Craig Shallahamer from orapub.com was very eye opening. Enough so, that I have started to look more closely at my future.

PASS Summit is going on right now and unfortunately, I am not in attendance. However, thanks to PASSTV, I have been able to watch numerous days worth of keynotes and sessions. This is definitely a conference that I would like to attend in the future. I know a good amount of people that attend every year and love this conference.

Combination of Both Worlds

I just recently came back to my blog and noticed that my last post stated that I was going back to Oracle. I did, but the fit with that employer was not the best and I moved on to another company at the beginning of 2016. I couldn't be happier with that move in 2016. I get to work with SQL Server and Oracle along with other software packages. Some items that I am working on or researching and would like to blog about in the future, Automic Scheduling software, SQL Server on Linux, Azure, Azure Analysis Services, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Cloud and other various items.