looks there another version got released: 12.2.4.1.1!

i am hoping oracle at least publishes list of bug fixes for small releases.I have some SRs on bugs with DVD and so I am curious when I see an update.

is there a specific feature you are looking forward too?

Found this video posted that refers to a new feature of new DVD update - You can now use non-metric column values to color in a viz. Here the video: https://youtu.be/TTpmF5rpHoc

The new features video that you have posted is for Oct update of DVD 4 (12.2.4.0.0). The Jan 2018 update is 12.2.4.1.0.

DVD 4 is out. Still no kerberos support for big data sources like impala, hive or spark...ugh.. You can try to use the generic ODBC data source that came out in DVD 3 but it does not do pushdown processing, so it chokes or hangs when connecting to even a 1m rows. Can't figure out why is so hard for oracle to get this…

the content is now moved to a OAC site. It also redirects you from the old link Here is the new home: https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/library.html

really sad to see OBIEE 12.2.1.3 did not have even one new feature on DV! I dont know why anyone would even buy on-prem DV

OBIEE 12.2.1.3 is out but does not even have one new feature on DV! ugh!

Sorry for the typo- I meant vasu murthy and not murphy.

That is not a lot of rows. In last year's OOW, Oracle PM team even had a slide on getting this fixed. There is even a thread here where vasu Murphy from oracle acknowledged this being an issue.

New viz are good but DVD still has a major fundamental flaw - no push down processing. I was hoping that oracle would fix it in this release but was disappointed again. Not quite enterprise ready yet!

just updated my DVD to the new release - still dont see any LDAP or Kerberos support nor any documented pushdown processing fixes/enhancements!

i have not tried going via OBIEE since that seems like taking a scenic route to get to the data source - all my steps are within the same data source so not sure adding middleware (OBIEE sever data federation) to this would make much sense. I still have to test the generic ODBC driver within DVD 3.0 and use windows config…

just tried the generic ODBC driver and configured my DSN to use kerberos and I was able to get in!! So kerberos works with 3.0 but only with generic ODBC data source. It does not work with any other source. Also ran few simple queries (just one predicate that was filtering the data) using few DVD data sources on decent…

typo with my earlier post - I meant DVD still chokes on decent sized data set.

i think it will be interesting to see how DVD handles advanced analytics R scripts from a pushdown standpoint because there is no true push down for this in BI server too. If you have oracle advanced analytics license on oracle relational db then it might be ok but if you data sitting in a hadoop environment then you are…

On paper it does claim to have a desktop version of bi server but not in reality!

On the feature gap point - depends how you view (on paper vs reality). For example - On paper, DVD has big data support with spark, hive, impala etc but in reality there is no support for LDAP/Kerberos and push down processing so these connectors are pretty much useless. Even on relational databases, DVD chokes on moderate…

not really expecting DVD/VA to catchup with Tableau anytime soon but I hope DVD at least gets basic features that makes it practical to be used in enterprises.